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Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse in town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It was founded in 1609 with money left by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset . Throughout its history it has provided sheltered accommodation for the elderly.
East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, 27 miles (43 km) south of London, 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Brighton, and 38 miles (61 km) northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the northeast of the county, the civil parish has an area of 2,443.45 hectares (6,037.9 acres).
Both the Worth Way and the Forest Way, together with a third disused railway footpath - the Cuckoo Trail, form part of Route 21 of the National Cycle Network linking London, Reigate and Gatwick Airport with East Grinstead, Heathfield and Eastbourne. Google Maps incorrectly labels sections of Route 21 outside West Sussex as the "Worth Way".
In 2004, Sackville's name was changed back from Sackville Community College to Sackville School. The school's emblem is the red rose of the Duchy of Lancaster of which East Grinstead was once a part. [4] In 2007, a new building on the site was constructed. It contains a large sports hall, gym, multiple offices and four classrooms.
By the mid-nineteenth century East Grinstead, then a small market town, found itself excluded from the development of the railway network in the south-east; the nearest town, Godstone, was connected to the South Eastern Railway's (SER) London to Dover line, whilst the London and Brighton Railway's (LBR) Brighton Main Line had linked in Three Bridges as well as the supposedly less important ...
Brambletye was founded at Sidcup Place, Kent in 1919. [1] It moved to its present location in the Sussex countryside on the southern outskirts of East Grinstead in 1933. The main school building, which is in its own wooded estate of 140 acres, overlooks the Ashdown Forest and Weir Wood Reservoir.
Eastern fields forming a narrow part of the parish are split by the A22 road, a main road to East Grinstead. The civil parish covers 1,419 hectares (3,510 acres) and is centred 4.6 miles (7.4 km) east of Horley, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) west of Lingfield, 8.0 miles (12.9 km) SSW of Oxted, and 22.0 miles (35.4 km) south-east of Kingston upon Thames.
East Preston Junior School, East Preston; East Wittering Community Primary School, East Wittering; Eastbrook Primary Academy, Southwick; Eastergate CE Primary School, Eastergate; Edward Bryant School, Bognor Regis; Elm Grove Primary School, Worthing; English Martyrs RC Primary School, Goring-by-Sea; Estcots Primary School, East Grinstead