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
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) Brasted - (Doctor to King George III) Brede - (Edward I inspects the Channel Fleet) Brenchley - (A beautiful Kent village) Brenzett - (St Eanswyth a Saxon princess) Buxted - (The first Iron Cannon in England) Camber - (Sands and Holidays) Chelwood Gate - The Forest entrance and President Kennedy Chiddingly - (Walking on Cheese ??) Colemans Hatch - (Church on the edge of the forest) Cranbrook - (Christmas Cards and Union Mill) 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) hastings Bulverhythe - (Landing place of the citizens) Hastings Old Town - (The ancient Cinque Port) St Leonards on Sea - (an Edwardian family's gentile resort) Hastings West Hill - (Ancient Norman Castle) Headcorn - (King Johns Oak) Hellingly - (Only remaining Ciric in Sussex) Herstmonceux - (Castle and Observatory) Horsmonden - (The largest Wealden Iron Works) Hurst Green - (The Youngest Highwayman on record) Isfield - (Simon de Montfort and the Lavender Line) Kilndown - (Charcoal for the Furnace) Marden - (Broadcloth and Agriculture) Newenden - (Alfred the Great's Fort) Newick - (Killer Cricket and Dirk Bogarde) Pevensey - (Ancient Roman Fortification) Rye - (On the Island) Sandhurst - (Escape from the Great Plague) Seaford - (The cormorants or shags) Staplehurst - (Charles Dickens train crash) Sutton Valence - (seized from Simon de Montfort) Tarring Neville - (The Chest from the Spanish Armarda) Tenterden - (Centre of the Broadcloth industry) Upper & Lower Dicker - (Michelham Priory) Wadhurst - (Last bare fisted Prize-Fight in England) Warehorne - (A good place to explore the Marshes) West Dean - (Alfred the Great's Palace) Westham - (Enclosure for the Castle) Winchelsea - (Inland Cinque Port !!) Wittersham - (Park your Airship here ?)