Start
End
Reign
Years
802
-
839
37
855
16
860
5
866
6
871
899
28
925
26
940
15
946
955
9
959
4
975
978
3
1016
38
1
1014
1035
19
1040
1042
2
1066
24
1087
21
1100
13
1135
35
1141
1154
1189
1199
10
1216
17
1272
56
1307
1327
20
1377
50
1399
22
1413
14
1422
1461
39
1470
1471
1483
12
1485
1509
1547
1553
1558
1603
45
1625
1649
1658
1660
1685
25
1689
1702
1714
1727
1760
33
1820
60
1830
1837
7
1901
64
1910
1936
1952
1999
47
Villages Referenced
Alciston (Fifty thousand tiles on the Barn) Aldington (The Aldington Gang) Appledore (Danes invade England) Ashburnham (Last Iron Furnace in Sussex) Battle (William the Conqueror prevails) Beckley (Alfred the Great and Guns !) Benenden (One of Englands Top Girls Schools) Berwick (Sharpen your arrows on the Church) Biddenden (The Maids of Biddenden) Bishopstone (Largest Tide-Mill in Sussex) Bonnington (Saint Rumwold the child saint) Boughton Monchelsea (Miraculous vision) Brede (Edward I inspects the Channel Fleet) Brenchley (A beautiful Kent village) Brenzett (St Eanswyth a saxon princess) Broad Oak Brede (On the Crossroads) Buxted (The first Iron Cannon in England) Chiddingly (Walking on Cheese ??) Chiddingstone (A perfect Tudor village) Colemans Hatch (Church on the edge of the forest) Cranbrook (Christmas Cards and Union Mill) Crowhurst (Village devastated by the Normans) Denton (Earl Godwins Manor) East Dean (Fishing and Wrecking) Eridge Green (The home of the Neville Family) Exceat (Alfred the Great's Naval Base?) Fletching (Simon de Montfort and Jack Cade) Flimwell (300 local people beheaded) Folkington (Teasles and Badgers) Forest Row (The Kings hunting party) Framfield (380 years without a church tower) Frant (King Johns hunting lodge) Frittenden (The Search for the Treacle Mines) Goudhurst (Smugglers, Iron and Forests) Hadlow (Mays Folly - 150ft tower) Hamsey (Abandoned Saxon Island) Headcorn (King Johns Oak) Heathfield (19th Century Natural Gas) Hellingly (Only remaining Ciric in Sussex) Herstmonceux (Castle and Observatory) Hever (Anne Boleyn and the Castle) Horsmonden (The largest Wealden Iron Works) Hurst Green (The Youngest Highwayman on record) Icklesham (Paul McCartney's Recording Studio) Isfield (Simon de Montfort and the Lavender Line) Jevington (Smugglers and Churchill Tanks) Kilndown (Charcoal for the Furnace) Laughton (Knight captures King of France) Marden (Broadcloth and Agriculture) Mayfield (Saint Dunstan and the Devil) Newenden (Alfred the Great's Fort) Newick (Killer Cricket and Dirk Bogarde) Northiam (Prime Ministers D Day inspection) Old Romney (Sheep and Wool Smuggling) Old Winchelsea (Abandoned after the Great Storm) Pevensey (Ancient Roman Fortification) Ripe (Earl Harolds estate) Rye (On the Island) Sandhurst (Escape from the Great Plague) Seaford (The cormorants or shags) Sedlescombe (Best gunpowder in Europe) Sissinghurst (The magnificent garden of Vita Sackville-West) Staplehurst (Charles Dickens train crash) Sundridge (Last Peer of England to be hanged) Sutton Valence (seized from Simon de Montfort) Tenterden (Centre of the Broadcloth industry) Ticehurst (Anne Boleyn and Pashley Manor) Udimore (Angels move the Church) Upper & Lower Dicker (Michelham Priory) Wadhurst (Last bare fisted Prize-Fight in England) Warbleton (The Iron Man) Warehorne (A good place to explore the Marshes) West Dean (Alfred the Great's Palace) Westerham (James Wolfe captures Quebec) Westham (Enclosure for the Castle) Whatlington (King Harold's Manor) Withyham (De La Warrs and Sackvilles) Wittersham (Park your Airship here ?)
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