East Sussex - Iron Country Timeline

Year Event Village

100
Roman Iron Workings Stonegate

791
Village given to Christ Church Canterbury Newenden

830
Alfred the Great builds fort Newenden

960
Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury from 960 - 988 founds village Mayfield

1066
Battle of Hastings Battle

1066
Village built after Norman conquest Brightling

1066
Manor taken over by the Normans Etchingham

1066
Village laid waste by Norman invaders Mountfield

1086
Saxon village recorded in Domesday Book Ticehurst

1086
Saxon village recorded in Domesday Book Whatlington

1086
Saxon village recorded in Domesday Book Mountfield

1086
Saxon village recorded in Domesday Book Netherfield

1086
Saxon village recorded in Domesday Book Salehurst

1090
The church was built Burwash

1096
Manor given to the Count of Eu Burwash

1100
Church tower built Ewhurst Green

1166
Manor given to the De Achyngham family Etchingham

1176
Cistercian Abbey built Robertsbridge

1193
Richard the Lionheart held captive and released Robertsbridge

1197
Land controlled by Priory of Hastings Ticehurst

1210
Robertsbridge Abbey moved to Salehurst Salehurst

1225
Henry III visits village Robertsbridge

1242
Carmelite monks settle in village Newenden

1264
Henry III beheads 300 local people Flimwell

1264
Henry III passed through the village to battle of Lewes Hurst Green

1295
Edward II visits village Robertsbridge

1300
Cricket first played in England Newenden

1348
Black Death hits Sandhurst Sandhurst

1358
Sir John Pelham fights at Poitiers Dallington

1358
Church built Etchingham

1385
Castle Built Bodiam

1389
Most of village destroyed by fire Mayfield

1432
Area owned by John Cripps Cripps Corner

1450
Kentish rebellion organised by Jack Cade Cade Street

1450
Great Dixter built Northiam

1484
Richard III captured the castle Bodiam

1500
Geneva Bible Written Burwash

1538
Dissolution of the Monastries - Henry VIII Battle

1538
Robertsbridge Abbey closed by Henry VIII Salehurst

1547
First reference to Cross in Hand Cross in Hand

1573
Good Queen Bess stays here on journey to Rye Northiam

1600
Gunpowder Manufacturing Battle

1610
Iron Manufacturing Sedlescombe

1617
Iron Manufacturing Wadhurst

1634
Ironmaster John Brittan builds Batemans Burwash

1645
Roundheads partially destroy the castle Bodiam

1650
Gypsum discovered Mountfield

1666
Contributing to the poor after the Fire of London Ewhurst Green

1750
Gunpowder Mill started Sedlescombe

1757
Mad Jack Fuller' was born Brightling

1792
Gibraltar Tower built by Francis Newbury Heathfield

1796
Richard Russel aged 13 holds up Hastings mail Hurst Green

1820
Road unsafe due to robbery by vagrants Burwash Common

1828
Mad Jack Fuller' purchases castle to restore Bodiam

1829
Broad Oak Academy suffers smallpox outbreak Broad Oak

1880
Turner paints in the area Brightling

1895
Natural gas discovered Heathfield

1902
Rudyard Kipling buys Batemans Burwash

1925
Castle bequeathed to the National Trust Bodiam

1939
Batemans left to the National Trust Burwash

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