| Burwash |
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| It would be difficult to find a more satisfying village, even in Sussex, than Burwash, for not only is it composed of unspoilt medieval buildings, rich in the mellow colouring of Time, but from its ridge it commands extensive views of rare beauty, both by day and by night. … Burwash stands on that great highway which goes north-east from Brighton to Canterbury by Lewes, Heathfield, Hurst green, Tenterden, and Ashford, and this highway is just on the 300 feet level when it becomes Burwash High Street - a slightly winding half-mile of ancient houses, shops and inns, with several dwellings of the manor house sort. On the north side of the street is a raised causeway with a row of pollard limes along its border and, summer and winter alike these trees add a singular charm to the village. The western approach to Burwash has a particularily effective fringe of firs; indeed, I know of no more lovely foreground for a sunset than those firs, seen as one looks along the street. When that misty red dusk, which betokens a fine day on the morrow, is filtering through those gaunt black pines, and when lights begin to appear amidst the old tiled and timbered houses, there is a strange old-world feeling over the scene, as if one were looking upon some wealden sunset of the Middle Ages. extract from Rudyard Kipling's Village by William A. Ramsay published in 1934 | |||
| Burwash is a village and parish, partly in the hundreds of Henhurst and Shoyswell, but chiefly in that of Hawkesborough, Eastern division of the county, Ticehurst union, Tunbridge Wells county court district, Hastings rape, rural deanery of Dallington, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester, 2 ½ miles south-east front Etchingham station, on the Hastings and Tunbridge branch of the South Eastern railway, 48 from London and 12 south-east from Tunbridge Wells, on the road from Lewes to Hawkhurst. Burwash, under its old form of "Burghersh", gives a title to the eldest son of the Earl of Westmorland and means "the town in the forest", or "the fortified hill in the wood". The church of St. Bartholomew, partly in the Early English style and partly of later date, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, west porch and a western tower with spire containing 5 bells | |||
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| 7053 | Births | 3 | 82 | 111 | 82 | 98 | 169 | 286 | 594 | 1048 | 1887 | 1585 | 1101 | 7 | ||||||
| 3370 | Christenings | 73 | 108 | 79 | 98 | 168 | 273 | 428 | 635 | 677 | 491 | 334 | 6 | |||||||
| 565 | Marriages | 18 | 27 | 21 | 9 | 31 | 41 | 78 | 105 | 129 | 86 | 20 | ||||||||
| 496 | Deaths | 13 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 28 | 40 | 47 | 71 | 101 | 91 | 57 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| 503 | Burials | 13 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 27 | 41 | 46 | 73 | 103 | 90 | 61 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Books and other documents | |
| Published | Title, author and references |
| 1835 | The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. ⇒ p. 577 |
| 1849 | Historical and Architectural Notices of the Iron Works of the County of Sussex by Mark Antony Lower ⇒ p. 207 |
| 1869 | Burwash by Charles Francis Trower, Esq., M.A. ⇒ p. 108 |
| 1870 | A Compendious History of Sussex - Volume I. by Mark Antony Lower, M.A. ⇒ p. 90 |
| 1882 | Kelly's Directory of Sussex by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. ⇒ entry |
| 1901 | Burwash Parish Magazine for 1901 ⇒ Magazine |
| 1904 | Highways and Byways in Sussex by E.V. Lucas ⇒ p. 381 |
| 1908 | Burwash Parish Magazine for 1908 ⇒ Magazine |
| 1934 | Rudyard Kipling's Village by William A. Ramsey ⇒ p. 228 |
| 1936 | Rudyard Kipling and Sussex by Arthur Beckett ⇒ p. 144 |
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| Places and properties in Burwash - a directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period |
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