Fletching, Sussex
| Fletching | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 Fletching village | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ428234 |
| Location: | 50°59’24"N, 0°1’48"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,064 (2011) |
| Post town: | Uckfield |
| Postcode: | TN22 |
| Dialling code: | 01825 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Wealden |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Wealden |
Fletching is a village in Sussex, three miles north-west of Uckfield, near one of the entrances to Sheffield Park. The A272 road crosses the parish.
The village is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Flescinge, an Old English name meaning "(settlement of) the family or followers of a man called Flecci."[1] Despite this, the name has given rise to a belief that the village was a mediæval centre for arrow production.[2]
The wider parish includes Piltdown, infamous for the Piltdown Man discovery in 1912, discovered later to be a fraud. The hamlet of Sharpsbridge lies in the south of the parish.
It has an historic church of St Andrew and St Mary the Virgin dating from the twelfth century.[3] Simon de Montfort prayed there before the Battle of Lewes. Historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) is interred in the Sheffield Mausoleum attached to the north transept of the church, having died in Fletching while staying with his great friend, John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield.
The school is Fletching CE Primary school. There are two public houses in Fletching: The Griffin Inn (which calls itself a gastropub) and The Rose and Crown. Nearby is The Piltdown Man at Piltdown.
Sport
- Football: Fletching Football Club, also known as 'The Archers'
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Fletching, Sussex) |
References
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Fletching entry at VillageNet.co.uk
- ↑ Parish church
