Chelwood Gate

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Chelwood Gate
Sussex

Chelwood Gate Village Hall
Location
Grid reference: TQ416299
Location: 51°2’53"N, -0°1’26"E
Data
Post town: Haywards Heath
Postcode: RH17
Dialling code: 01825
Local Government
Council: Wealden
Parliamentary
constituency:
Wealden

Chelwood Gate is a small village by Danehill in Sussex. Its nearest town is Uckfield, which is about seven miles south-east of the village, just off the A22 road.

The village was at one of the entrances into Ashdown Forest, hence its name.

There is an Iron Age enclosure which is a Scheduled Monument due to its importance as a relatively rare example of a Wealden Iron Age settlement.[1]

Church

The village church, @, forms part of the Parish of All Saints Danehill with Chelwood Gate. The church was built as a chapel of ease not long after the main parish building in Danehill was completed, so that the residents local to Chelwood Gate would not have to travel the longer journey on foot to the church at Danehill.[2]

About the village

The village public house, the Red Lion, was built in the 19th century and was patronised in the past by Harold Macmillan and the American President John F Kennedy.[3] Kennedy came to visit the then Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, in 1963 and a memorial to this event can be found on the Wych Cross road within the village.[4]

The village also has a village hall, which hosts village events, a village market and a nursery school.

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