Five Ash Down

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Five Ash Down
Sussex

Five Ash Down Independent Chapel
Location
Grid reference: TQ480246
Location: 51°0’8"N, -0°6’27"E
Data
Post town: Uckfield
Postcode: TN22
Dialling code: 01825
Local Government
Council: Wealden
Parliamentary
constituency:
Wealden

Five Ash Down is a small village near Buxted in Sussex. Its nearest town is Uckfield, which lies about two miles south from the village. The village is on the A26 road between Uckfield and Crowborough.

Five Ash Down is home to the Pig and Butcher public house, a village hall which has a weekly timetable of events and the village shop and Post Office. Five Ash Down Independent Chapel, an Evangelical church, was founded in 1773 and moved to its present site in 1784, although in its present form the chapel is mostly Victorian.[1]

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References

  1. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Sussex, 1965 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09677-4page 300

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