Burwash, East Sussex
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- For other uses of Burwash see Burwash (disambiguation)
| Burwash | |
|---|---|
| Statistics | |
| Population: | |
| Ordnance Survey | |
| OS grid reference: | TQ6750024700 |
| Administration | |
| District: | Lewes |
| Shire county: | East Sussex |
| Region: | South East England |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | East Sussex |
| Historic county: | Sussex |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Sussex Police |
| Ambulance service: | South East Coast |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | |
| Postal district: | |
| Dialling code: | 01580 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Lewis |
| European Parliament: | South East England |
 |
|
Burwash is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located five miles five (8 km) south-west of Hurst Green, on the A265 road, and on the River Dudwell.
Its main claim to fame is that for half of his life Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) lived in the village at Bateman's. Kipling used the house's setting and the wider local area as the setting for many of his stories in Puck of Pook's Hill (1907).
Smuggling took place here in the 18th century (several smuggler's graves can still be seen in the churchyard of St. Bartholomew's); and earlier it had been one of the villages involved in the Wealden iron industry.
The cricketer, Albert Relf (1874-1937) was born here, and The Who frontman Roger Daltrey maintains a country estate in the Burwash area.
[edit] External links
 This Sussex location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
