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Ashburnham, East Sussex
Ashburnham is a civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, situated to the west of Battle. It includes the settlements of Brownbread Street and Ponts Green; Ashburnham Forge is also within the parish. Ashburnham shares a parish council with the neighbouring small parish of Penhurst. Ashburnham takes its name from Ashburnham Place, now a Christian conference and prayer centre, which in turn comes from the fact that the local stream is the ''Ashbourne''. The 14th century parish church, dedicated to St Peter, was rebuilt in 1665. The village was in the iron making district of the Weald, and its blast furnace was the last in Sussex to be closed in 1813. Ashburnham and neighbouring Penhurst, neither of which have many dwellings, were united in 1810. The parish has a population of 303 (2001 census). Landscape Ashburnham is located in the heart of the Sussex Weald within the designated High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Landmarks Ashburnham Park ...
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Bexhill And Battle (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bexhill and Battle () is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 by Huw Merriman of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. Constituency profile The constituency is predominantly rural, like Wealden (UK Parliament constituency), Wealden to the west. The main towns are the shingle-beach resort of Bexhill-on-Sea and the historic town of Battle, East Sussex, Battle. Electoral Calculus describes the seat as "Strong Right" characterised by retired, socially conservative voters who strongly supported Brexit. Notable representative The seat's first MP, Charles Wardle, served as a junior Home Office minister in the government of John Major; Wardle List of British Members of Parliament who crossed the floor#1997–2001 Parliament, had the Conservative wh ...
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High Weald Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty
The High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is in south-east England. Covering an area of , it takes up parts of Kent, Surrey, East Sussex, and West Sussex. It is the fourth largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in England and Wales. It has an attractive landscape with a mosaic of small farms and woodlands, historic parks, sunken lanes and ridge-top villages. The area consists of 99 parishes and a total population of approximately 120,000 persons. The main communities are Tunbridge Wells, Crowborough, Hastings and Haywards Heath. Designation and administration The High Weald AONB was designated under the National Park and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 in October 1983. Designation as an AONB gave official recognition to the unique landscape of the High Weald, strengthened the ability of government agencies and local authorities to conserve and enhance the landscape, and provided priority for financial support for these objectives from the principal gov ...
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Villages In East Sussex
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of East Sussex, England. A *Alciston, Alfriston, Arlington B *Barcombe, Barcombe Cross, Barcombe Mills, Battle, Beachy Head, Beckley Furnace, Bells Yew Green, Belmont, Berwick, Bexhill-on-Sea, Birling Gap, Bishopstone, Bodiam, Brede, Brighton, Broadland Row, Broad Oak Brede, Broad Oak Heathfield, Burwash, Buxted C * Camber, Clive Vale, Cock Marling, Cripps Corner, Crowborough, Chiddingly, Chailey, Cooksbridge D * Denton, Ditchling, Downside E *Eastbourne, East Dean, East Guldeford, Eridge Green, Etchingham, Exceat F *Fairwarp, Falmer, Filching, Five Ash Down, Folkington, Forest Row, Frant G * Groombridge H *Hadlow Down, Hailsham, Hammerwood, Hampden Park, Hangleton, Hankham, Hartfield, Hastings, Heathfield, Herstmonceux, Hollington I *Icklesham, Iford, Isfield J * Jevington K *Kingston near Lewes L *Langney, Lewes, Lower Dicker, Lower Willingdon (see Willingdon and Jevington), Litlington M *Ma ...
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission. The Parliament is composed of 705 members (MEPs). It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of 375 million eligible voters in 2009. Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage. Voter turnout in parliamentary elections decreased each time after 1979 until 2019, when voter turnout increased by eight percentage points, and rose above 50% for the first time since 1994. The voting age is 18 in all EU member states except for Malta and Austria, where it is 16, and Greece, where it is 17. Although the E ...
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South East England (European Parliament Constituency)
South East England was a constituency of the European Parliament. It elected 10 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020. Boundaries The constituency corresponded to South East England, in the south east of the United Kingdom, comprising the ceremonial counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. History It was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East, East Sussex and Kent South, Hampshire North and Oxford, Itchen, Test and Avon, Kent East, Kent West, South Downs West, Surrey, Sussex South and Crawley, Thames Valley, Wight and Hampshire South, and parts of Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes, Cotswolds The Cotswolds (, ) is a regi ...
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Brexit
Brexit (; a portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET).The UK also left the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The UK is the only sovereign country to have left the EU or the EC. Greenland left the EC (but became an OTC) on 1 February 1985. The UK had been a member state of the EU or its predecessor the European Communities (EC), sometimes of both at the same time, since 1 January 1973. Following Brexit, EU law and the Court of Justice of the European Union no longer have primacy over British laws, except in select areas in relation to Northern Ireland. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains relevant EU law as domestic law, which the UK can now amend or repeal. Under the terms of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland continues to participate in the European Single Market in relation to goods, and to be a member o ...
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East Sussex County Council
East Sussex County Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex. East Sussex is divided into five local government districts. Three are larger, rural, districts (from west to east: Lewes; Wealden; and Rother). The other two, Eastbourne and Hastings, are mainly urban areas. The rural districts are subdivided into civil parishes. The County Council meets at East Sussex County Hall, the authority's headquarters; there are a number of other administrative buildings located throughout the county. History Sussex was historically divided into six sub-divisions known as rapes. From the 12th century the three eastern rapes and the three western rapes had separate quarter sessions: the county town of the three eastern rapes was Lewes. This position was formalised by Parliament in 1865, and the two parts were made into administrative counties, each with distinct elected county councils, in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888. Within East Sussex the ...
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Crowhurst, East Sussex
Crowhurst is an isolated village situated five miles (8 km) north-west of Hastings in East Sussex. It has a parish council and is located within the Rother District Council. The village The parish church is dedicated to St George. The ruins of the manor house lie to the south of it. Although small, the village does have a railway station on the London to Hastings line. It was built in 1902 as a junction station for a branch line to Bexhill. The line crossed nearby marshes on a 17-arch viaduct; the line was closed under the so-called "Beeching cuts" in 1964, and the viaduct was demolished in 1969. The village has a primary school. The village post office closed in March 2008: until then it served as a convenience store also. There is a pub, ''The Plough''; until 1998 there was a second pub, ''The Inn at Crowhurst''. History The earliest mention of the settlement is in 771, when King Offa of Mercia gave the Bishop of Selsey a piece of land here; a church was then bui ...
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Rother District Council
Rother may refer to: General * Rother (surname) (also sometimes spelled Röther) * Rother District, a local government district in East Sussex, England * Rother FM, an independent local radio station for Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England * Rother Kuppe, a mountain in Bavaria, Germany * Rother Ochsen, a tavern in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland * HMS ''Rother'', two Royal Navy warships * SS ''Rother'' (1914), a ship Rivers * River Rother, East Sussex, in East Sussex and Kent * River Rother, West Sussex, in Hampshire and West Sussex * River Rother, South Yorkshire See also *Rother Valley (other) The Rother Valley is the valley of the River Rother, of which there are at least three in England. Rother Valley may refer to: *Rother Valley (UK Parliament constituency), a parliamentary constituency in Yorkshire, named for the Yorkshire and Derb ...
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Catsfield
Catsfield is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. It is located six miles (9.7 km) north of Bexhill, and three miles (5 km) southwest of Battle. The village was first documented in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was recorded "''there is a little church serving the hall''". It is one of the oldest settlements in the area, with Romano British period archaeological remains. The village once consisted of two manors: Catsfield and Catsfield Levett. Thomas Lyvet (Levett) held the lordship of the manor of Catsfield in 1445 but forfeited it, along with the lordship of Firle, for his debts. But the manor of Catsfield Levett remained in the Levett family for centuries, and in the seventeenth century a Levett heiress carried it into the Eversfield family. (Richard Lyvet of Firle was lord of the manor of Catsfield in 1431.) With a fortune built on ancestral landholdings and later on iron making, the Levetts held land across Sussex. The p ...
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Site Of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man. SSSI/ASSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in the United Kingdom are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation. The acronym "SSSI" is often pronounced "triple-S I". Selection and conservation Sites notified for their biological interest are known as Biological SSSIs (or ASSIs), and those notified for geological or physiographic interest are Geological SSSIs (or ASSIs). Sites may be divided into management units, with some areas including units that are noted for both biological and geological interest. Biological Biological SSSI/ASSIs may ...
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Ashburnham Park
Ashburnham Park is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Hastings in East Sussex. It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade 2. The park is the garden of Ashburnham Place Ashburnham Place is an English country house, now used as a Christian conference and prayer centre, five miles west of Battle, East Sussex. It was one of the finest houses in the southeast of England in its heyday, but much of the structure was de ... and it is listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. This former medieval deer park has many ancient trees which support more than 160 species of lichens. The habitats are parkland and woodland together with three ornamental lakes. The woods have a diverse selection of breeding bird species. References {{SSSIs East Sussex Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex Nature Conservation Review sites Catsfield ...
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