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Glynde
Glynde is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, United Kingdom. It is located two miles (5 km) east of Lewes.OS Explorer map Eastbourne and Beachy Head Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. Estate The estate at Glynde has belonged to four interlinked families: the Waleys ("from Wales"), Morleys, Trevors, and Brands. The Trevors were originally from north Wales, and descended from Tudor Trevor, a chieftain who in 915 married the daughter of Hywel the Good of Gwynedd and all Wales.Hampden, Anthony (1997) ''A glimpse of Glynde'', Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd. The Glynde manor was not named in the Domesday Book, but it is probably the unnamed peculier of the Archbishop of Canterbury held by one Godfrey of Malling, who also held the manor of South Malling. By the late 12th century, Richard Waleys held four knight fees of the Archbishop, including Glynde. The Waleys added further e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynde Church
Glynde is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, United Kingdom. It is located two miles (5 km) east of Lewes.OS Explorer map Eastbourne and Beachy Head Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. Estate The estate at Glynde has belonged to four interlinked families: the Waleys ("from Wales"), Morleys, Trevors, and Brands. The Trevors were originally from north Wales, and descended from Tudor Trevor, a chieftain who in 915 married the daughter of Hywel the Good of Gwynedd and all Wales.Hampden, Anthony (1997) ''A glimpse of Glynde'', Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd. The Glynde manor was not named in the Domesday Book, but it is probably the unnamed peculier of the Archbishop of Canterbury held by one Godfrey of Malling, who also held the manor of South Malling. By the late 12th century, Richard Waleys held four knight fees of the Archbishop, including Glynde. The Waleys added further esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynde And Beddingham
Glynde and Beddingham is an amalgam of two civil parishes in the Lewes (district), Lewes district of East Sussex. Glynde Beddingham Governance On a local level, Glynde and Beddingham is governed by Glynde and Beddingham Parish Council. Council meetings are held every two months in the Beddingham Reading Room. Their responsibilities include footpaths, street lighting, playgrounds and minor planning applications. The Parish Council has seven seats; four representing Glynde Parish and two representing Beddingham Parish. All but one seat were filled in the 2015 election. The vacancy was filled later in 2015 by co-option. The next level of government is the District Council. The parish of Glynde and Beddingham lies within the Ouse Valley and Ringmer ward of Lewes District Council which returns three seats to the council. The election in May 2015 elected two conservative, Paul Gander and Richard Turner, and one Liberal Democrat, Peter Gardiner. East Sussex County Council is the ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynde Place
Glynde Place is an Elizabethan Manor House at Glynde in East Sussex, England. Situated in the South Downs National Park, it is the family home of the Viscounts Hampden, whose forebears built the house in 1569. It is a Grade I listed building. The adjacent church was built in the eighteenth century. In 1883 the Brand family estate consisted of in Sussex (inherited through the families of Morley and Trevor, and valued at £8,121 a year), 6,658 in Hertfordshire, 3,600 in Essex, 2,081 in county Cambridge, and 978 in Suffolk. (Total worth £24,753 a year). From 2008 - 2013, the house was subject to a major renovation, organised by the 7th Viscount Hampden, and funded by the sale of one of the estate's paintings. The house and gardens, the latter being Grade II* listed, are open to the public for tours. Events From 2010 to 2013, the Meadowlands Festival was held in the grounds. Since 2013, it is the site of the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, which takes place every summer. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynde Railway Station
Glynde railway station serves Glynde in East Sussex. It is from , on the East Coastway Line and train services are provided by Southern. The station is unstaffed and a PERTIS Permit to travel machine was installed in 2008, in connection with a Penalty Fares Scheme. This has since been replaced by a Shere self-service ticket machine. The station is located near to the Glyndebourne Opera House, although better connections to the opera house are available from , from which shuttle buses run. The former Station building is occupied by Airworks paragliding school. Services All services at Glynde are operated by Southern using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to * 1 tph to via During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional hourly service between Brighton and and there are also a number of peak hour services to . On Saturdays, the service to Hastings is extended to Ore and on Sundays it terminates at . Accidents and inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's Church, Glynde
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed Anglican church in the village of Glynde in East Sussex. It was built in the 1760s by Richard Trevor, bishop of Durham, whose family seat was the adjacent Glynde Place. History There was a medieval church, which stood at an angle to the present building; little is known about it. A new church was built on the site by Richard Trevor, who was Bishop of Durham from 1752 to 1771, and a member of the Trevor family who owned Glynde Place. It was designed by Sir Thomas Robinson, who had worked for Richard Trevor on his Bishop's Palace in County Durham. The work was done by John Morris, a builder from the nearby town of Lewes.Glynde - St Mary Sussex Parish Churches. Accessed Jan 2014. The demolition of the old church, which was in a poor con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewes
Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. It is the police and judicial centre for all of Sussex and is home to Sussex Police, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, Lewes Crown Court and HMP Lewes. The civil parish is the centre of the Lewes local government district and the seat of East Sussex County Council at East Sussex County Hall. A traditional market town and centre of communications, in 1264 it was the site of the Battle of Lewes. The town's landmarks include Lewes Castle, Lewes Priory, Bull House (the former home of Thomas Paine), Southover Grange and public gardens, and a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house known as Anne of Cleves House. Other notable features of the area include the Glyndebourne festival, the Lewes Bonfire celebrations and the Lewes Pound. Etymology The place-name 'Lewes' is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter circa 961 AD, where it appears as ''Læwe''. It appears as ''Lewes'' in the Domesday Book of 1086. The additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Trevor (bishop)
Richard Trevor (30 September 1707 – 9 June 1771) was an English prelate of Welsh descent, who served as Bishop of St Davids from 1744 to 1752 and Bishop of Durham from 1752 until his death. Life Trevor was born at Glynde in Sussex, the family seat of the Trevors who had originated in 16th century Wales. He was educated at Westminster School and at Queen's College, Oxford, and became a fellow of All Souls in 1727. He became a canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1735. A statue of Bishop Trevor was placed in the Bishop's Chapel at Bishop Auckland in 1775 by Joseph Nollekens. Legacy After his death, the estate of Glynde passed to his elder brother, Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden. Art collection Bishop Trevor was a supporter of the Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753. This interest in Jewish causes is reflected in his purchase in 1756 of 12 paintings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Zurbarán from a series known as ''Jacob and his twelve sons'', depicting the Old Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beddingham
Beddingham is an English village and civil parish in the Lewes (district), Lewes district of East Sussex, at the junction between the London–Newhaven (A26 road, A26) and south coast (A27 road, A27) roads south-east of Lewes. The parish council joined with that of Glynde shortly after World War II, the Second World War, as Glynde and Beddingham, but they remain separate civil parishes. History The area was settled in pre-Ancient Rome, Roman times with many tumuli in the surrounding hills originating in the Iron Age. The Roman villa at Beddingham was excavated by David Rudling 198–1992. Construction began in the late first century AD, and the villa was occupied until the mid fourth-century. There was a wooden roundhouse built originally (about 50 AD) before Roman construction began towards the end of the century. When the Saxons came, one of the buildings on the site was hollowed out, presumably as a Sunken Feature Building (Grubenhaus). The fill of the cut contains a mix o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet (1703–1777), of Rokeby, Yorkshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1734 and a Governor of Barbados. He was an architect, collector and an extravagant character, whose life was the inspiration for numerous anecdotes. Early life Robinson was eldest son and heir of William Robinson (bapt. Rokeby, Yorkshire, 23 September 1675, d. 24 February 1720), who married, in 1699, Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert Walters of Cundall in Yorkshire; she died on 26 July 1730, aged 53, and was buried in the centre of the south aisle of Merton church, Surrey, where a marble monument was placed to her memory. Sir Thomas, her son, also erected on the old Roman highway, near Rokeby, an obelisk in her honour. Another son was Richard, 1st Baron Rokeby, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh. After finishing his education, Robinson went on the Grand Tour, paying attention to architecture in Greece and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewes (district)
Lewes is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in East Sussex in southern England covering an area of , with of coastline. It is named after its administrative centre, Lewes. Other towns in the district include Newhaven, East Sussex, Newhaven, Peacehaven, Seaford, East Sussex, Seaford and Telscombe. Plumpton National Hunt racing, racecourse is within the district. There are 28 parishes in the district. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the former borough of Lewes along with Newhaven and Seaford Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban districts and Chailey Rural District. Politics Elections to the council are held every four years, with all of the 41 seats, representing 21 wards, on the council being filled. Since July 2019, following the May election, an alliance of councillors from the Green Party of England and Wales, Green, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat, and Labour parties, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewes (UK Parliament Constituency)
Lewes is a constituency in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Maria Caulfield, a Conservative. Constituency profile The constituency is centred on the town of Lewes. However, the constituency also covers most of the Lewes district, including the coastal towns of Seaford and Newhaven, which are rural and semi-rural and all in outer parts of the London Commuter Belt, though with a high number of people who have retired from across the country. The constituency excludes Peacehaven and Telscombe which since 1997 have been in Brighton, Kemptown, and includes part of neighbouring Wealden District. Electoral Calculus categorises the constituency as "Centrist", indicating average levels of education and wealth and moderate support for Brexit. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Borough of Brighton, the Sessional Divisions of Hove and Worthing, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Lewes and Steyning. 1918–1950: The Borough of Lewes, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror. William's claim to the English throne derived from his familial relationship with the childless Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor, who may have encouraged William's hopes for the throne. Edward died in January 1066 and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson. The Norwegian king Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in September 1066 and was victorious at the Battle of Fulford on 20 September, but Godwinson's army defeated and killed Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September. Three days later on 28 September, William's invasion force of thousands of men and hundreds of ships landed at Pevensey in Sussex in southern England. Harold marched south to oppose him, leaving a significant portion of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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