Buckhurst is within the parish. It is mentioned in Domesday Book thus: - " The same Ansfrid holds half a hide in Biochest outside the rape of the Earl (Mortain). Frane held it of King Edward. It lay in Waningore. It has never paid geld. There is land for one plough, and there it is, with one villein. It was worth 15s., now 5s."

Biochest is said to be a corrupt spelling of the Anglo-Saxon boc hyrst - beech wood.

In Buckhurst Park is the seat of the Earl Delawarr. This park is romantic and well timbered, having many fine oak and beech trees. There are also several pieces of water. A walk through it on a fine day is one of the most delightful of pleasures. The noble old trees, silent yet eloquent with the history of centuries, the cawing of the rooks, indignant at the intrusion of a stranger, the rustling of the nimble squirrel skipping from bough to bough, the gambols of innumerable rabbits, the enquiring look and innocent curiosity of the gentle fallow-deer, the rippling of the water, the singing of the birds, and the hum of insects, plunge the mind into the very depths of romance and poetry. We almost realise the presence of a hawking party just issuing from the shadow of the wood into the glade before us. What we actually saw was the huntsmen, in their scarlet coats, disappearing behind clumps of trees and appearing again on the grassy slopes of the opposite hill - a truly picturesque scene. Red deer are said to be kept in that part of the park called the "Five Hundred," which is thickly covered with forest trees.

The site of the old mansion, Buckhurst House, which for many centuries was the home of the Sackvilles, was some little way west of the present mansion, and on much lower ground. Very little of the old building remains - only the old gate tower and a small part of one side of the quadrangle, but the court is still well defined. There are also yet to be seen, below the house, parts of subterraneous passages which a few years ago could be explored for some distance, but have since become blocked up with the earth which has fallen into them. The old mansion was forsaken and allowed to fall into ruins, when Lord Buckhurst obtained a grant of Knole, in Kent, and some of the materials were carried to East Grinstead to be used in building there the Sackville College. The property originally belonged to the family of Dene, but by the marriage of Ela Dene with Jordon de Sackville it came into possession of the Sackville family. At this old mansion was born Thomas Sackville, more illustrious from his abilities and learning than from his title, who afterwards became the first Earl of Dorset. He died in 1608, in the reign of James I., whilst sitting in the Council Chamber at Whitehall, at the advanced age of 80 years, and was buried at Withyham.