Battle (William the Conqueror prevails) Bodiam (The finest ruined castle in the Country) Brightling (famous for Mad Jack Fuller) Broad Oak (Smallpox at the Academy) Burwash (The home of Rudyard Kipling) Burwash Common (Roughest pub in the South East) Burwash Weald (Roughest pub in the South East) Cade Street (Jack Cade and the Kentish rebellion) Cripps Corner (Home Guard surprises the Army) Cross in Hand (The Crusaders Assembly) Dallington (Custers Last Stand!) Etchingham (The oldest Brass Weather Vane in the country) Ewhurst Green (Great Fire of London contributions) Five Ashes (Vast collection of rock plants) Flimwell (300 local people beheaded) Hawkhurst (A Notorious Gang of Smugglers) Heathfield (19th Century Natural Gas) Hurst Green (The Youngest Highwayman on record) Mark Cross (Policeman arrests eccentric landowner) Mayfield (Saint Dunstan and the Devil) Mountfield (17th Century Coal !!) Netherfield (Village at the top of the Hill) Newenden (Alfred the Great's Fort) Northiam (Prime Ministers D Day inspection) Punnetts Town (The Windmill on the Hill) Robertsbridge (The Home of Modern Cricket) Salehurst (Richard the Lion Heart's Gift) Sandhurst (Escape from the Great Plague) Sedlescombe (Best gunpowder in Europe) Staplecross (Mothers grudge hangs son) Stonegate (Ancient Roman Cross Road) Ticehurst (Anne Boleyn and Pashley Manor) Wadhurst (Last bare fisted Prize-Fight in England) Whatlington (King Harold's Manor)
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