Wartling

Wartling is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, between Bexhill and Hailsham, ten miles (16 km) west of the latter at the northern edge of the Pevensey Levels. The parish includes Wartling itself and Boreham Street, two miles (3 km) north-east on the A271 road.^[3][4]

Wartling
The Lamb Inn, Wartling
Wartling Location within East Sussex
Area	11.1 km2 (4.3 sq mi) [1]
Population	446 (2011)[2]
• Density	93/sq mi (36/km2)
OS grid reference	TQ657092
• London	49 miles (79 km) NNW
District	Wealden
Shire county	East Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HAILSHAM
Postcode district	BN27
Dialling code	01323
Police	Sussex
Fire	East Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Bexhill and Battle
List of places UK England East Sussex 50.86°N 0.35°E / 50.86; 0.35

Wartling is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when there was a chapel there. The current church, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and linked with that at Herstmonceux,^[5] was built in the 13th century, probably on the same site as the chapel. As with many villages on the Weald, the iron industry flourished here in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Notable people

• Mascal Gyles, (died 1652), Vicar of Wartling and polemicist against bowing “at the name of Jesus”, as described in the hymn by Caroline Maria Noel
• John Richardson Major, Vicar of Wartling 1846 to 1851
• H.J.C. Turner, born in the Wartling Place the Rectory at Wartling in 1850, the son of the curate, played in the first rugby international in 1871.

See also

• RAF Wartling

References

1. "East Sussex in Figures". East Sussex County Council. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 11 October 2015.
3. Wartling Parish boundaries
4. Wartling PC members
5. Herstmonceux and Wartling parishes website

External links

Media related to Wartling at Wikimedia Commons