Rushlake Green

Rushlake Green
Rushlake Green village sign
Rushlake Green Rushlake Green shown within East Sussex
OS grid reference	TQ626181
District	Wealden
Shire county	East Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HEATHFIELD
Postcode district	TN21
Dialling code	01435
Police	Sussex
Fire	East Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Wealden
List of places UK England East Sussex

Coordinates: 50°56′22″N 0°18′47″E / 50.939498°N 0.313135°E / 50.939498; 0.313135

Rushlake Green is a small village in the civil parish of Warbleton in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. Rushlake Green is situated on the slopes of the Weald between Heathfield 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west, Battle 9 miles (14 km) south-west and Hailsham 7 miles (11 km) south.

History

The name Rushlake Green is probably derived from the Norman rische lac meaning a lake or stream surrounded by rushes,^[1] in which there is a lake just to the west of the village.

Wealden iron was mined here and at nearby Warbleton in the 16th and 17th centuries.^[2]

Earliest records of the village date back to the 16th century although the Horse and Groom pub^[3] and other cottages were built in the 17th century

Gallery

Looking north over the village green.
Village shops
Horse and Groom pub built around 1650
A traditional fingerpost showing nearby places.

References

↑ "Rushlake Green". VillageNet.co.uk. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
↑ "Wealden Iron Research Group". WIRG. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
↑ "Horse and Groom". Shepherd Neame. Retrieved 23 May 2012.

Towns, villages and hamlets in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England

Alciston Alfriston Arlington Berwick Best Beech Hill Birling Gap Blackboys Blackham Bodle Street Green Boreham Street Broad Oak Burlow Buxted Chalvington Chelwood Gate Chiddingly Coleman's Hatch Cooper's Green Coulsey Wood Cowbeech Cross in Hand Crowborough Danehill Duddleswell East Dean East Hoathly Eridge Green Etchingwood Exceat Fairwarp Five Ash Down Five Ashes Fletching Folkington Forest Row Framfield Frant Friston Furner's Green Golden Cross Groombridge Gun Hill Hadlow Down Hailsham Halland Hammerwood Hankham Hartfield Heathfield Hellingly Heron's Ghyll Herstmonceux High Hurstwood Holtye Hooe Hooe Common Horam Horney Common Isfield Jevington Laughton Litlington Little Horsted Little London Lower Dicker Lower Horsebridge Lullington Magham Down Maresfield Mark Cross Mayfield Maynard's Green Milton Street Muddles Green Ninfield Nutley Old Heathfield Pevensey Pevensey Bay Polegate Poundgate Punnett's Town Rickney Ripe Roser's Cross Rotherfield Rushlake Green Selmeston Sparrow's Green Stone Cross Stunts Green Tidebrook Three Cups Corner Uckfield Upper Dicker Upper Hartfield Vines Cross Wadhurst Waldron Warbleton Wartling Westdean Westham Whitesmith Willingdon Wilmington Windmill Hill Winton Withyham Wych Cross

Wealden District

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