Bodiam
| Bodiam | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 Bodiam Castle | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ783254 |
| Location: | 51°0’0"N, 0°32’24"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 393 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Robertsbridge |
| Postcode: | TN32 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rother |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bexhill and Battle |
Bodiam is a small village and parish in Sussex, in the valley of the River Rother, adjacent to the border with Kent. It is near to the villages of Sandhurst in Kent and Ewhurst Green. There is a 12th-century church, which contains a brass of a knight with the arms of the de Bodeham family, one of the first lords of the manor. Originally it was a port and crossing point from Battle to north Kent. During the mediæval period, a great moated castle, Bodiam Castle, was built which is now a popular visitor attraction. There is a small range of houses, a pub (The Castle), and a restaurant (The Curlew). Although famous for its castle, Bodiam was also in a main hop-growing area in the 20th century and was famous for growing hops for Guinness. Reginald B. Levett of Court Lodge Farm would sell part of his land to Guinness to grow hops. A railway was built to provide transport for the hoppers, the Kent and East Sussex Railway, which is now another tourist attraction.
Education
It has two schools: Bodiam Primary School, a state school, and Claremont Senior School, an independent.
Notable people
Bodiam was the birthplace in 1881 of Miss A. E. (Ada Elizabeth) Levett, a leading mediæval scholar and vice-principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Levett was one of the first female professors of history in England,[2] having been awarded a chair in history at Westfield College, University of London in 1929.
References
- ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120892&c=TN32+5UL&d=16&e=62&g=6421658&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1444228279787&enc=1. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ↑ "St Hilda's College, A History of the County of Oxford, Vol. 3, H. E. Salter and Mary D. Lobel, Victoria County History, 1954, British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63901. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Bodiam) |
- Bodiam at the Open Directory Project
- Hop growing in Bodiam