Salehurst
| Salehurst | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Oast house near Parsonage Farm, Bocks Hill | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ741242 |
| Location: | 50°59’24"N, 0°28’48"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Robertsbridge |
| Postcode: | TN32 |
| Dialling code: | 01580 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rother |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bexhill and Battle |
Salehurst is a village in Sussex, found just to the north-east of Robertsbridge, a larger neighbour village, on a minor road; it is about thirteen miles north of Hastings and just east of the course of the A21 road.
In historical terms Salehurst is much older than its neighbour; before the bridge over the River Rother was built it already existed, and it is named in the Domesday Book. At the time the river crossing was by ford or ferry, but in the 12th century a newly established order of Cistercian monks constructed the bridge, and the two settlements of Robertsbridge and Northbridge Street came into being; eventually - since the main road now bypassed the village - becoming much more important than Salehurst.[1]
Three miles from Salehurst is Bodiam Castle. One owner of Bodiam Castle was the Levett family, who lived at Salehurst during their ownership of the castle.[2] In 1588 John Levett of Salehurst contributed to the Armada loan,[3] and in 1607 his sons John and Thomas of Salehurst were regranted by the College of Arms their right to the Levett coat of arms issued to their Sussex ancestors.[4]
John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper (ca.1600–1660) was a peer, military officer and politician who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1642–43) and Master of the Rolls (1643) was an influential counsellor of King Charles I during the Civil War. His family came from Wigsell in the parish of Salehurst.
St Mary the Virgin
The parish church, St Mary the Virgin,[5] is reputed to be the largest rural parish church in the eastern parts of Sussex.[6] Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG GCB GCMG PC (1854–1925) is buried in the churchyard. Rev. John Lord (1614–81) was rector from 1640 until his death; in 1937 his descendants donated to the church a portrait of him which had been owned by the family for generations.
Converted Oast House
Site of Salehurst Halt
Wigsell, Salehurst
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Salehurst) |
References
- ↑ Salehurst History: Parish Council]
- ↑ Bodiam and Its Lords, Mark Antony Lower, John Russell Smith, London, 1871
- ↑ Lower, Mark Antony (1848). "On the Names of the Sussex Gentry in 1588". Sussex Archaeological Collections 1: 36. doi:10.5284/1086833.
- ↑ Attree, F. W. T. (1894). "Lists of Gentry at Various Dates, with Descriptions of the Arms of a Few Families Not Previously Noticed". Sussex Archaeological Collections 39: 122. doi:10.5284/1086058.
- ↑ Salehurst Church and the Culpeper family
- ↑ Photographs of the church
