Historical Sites

Ashdown Forest Centre

The starting point for your visit to Ashdown Forest, the Forest Centre’s Information Barn has everything you need to help you plan your day. The café stocks a range of gifts and souvenirs. Public toilets and a Changing Places facility are also available. It is open seven days a week (opening times at weekends are subject to change so check the website for details).

Hartfield Parish Council

Hartfield is a lovely country village situated in the beautiful Ashdown Forest.   It is located 4 miles south of East Grinstead and 3 miles east of Forest Row and on the borders with Kent.  The  village includes …

Bridge Cottage

Bridge Cottage is a beautiful Hall House which was thought to have been built around 1436.  It is the oldest building in Uckfield and is located at the bottom of the High Street, almost opposite …

Standen (National Trust)

Designed by Philip Webb in the 1890s for wealthy solicitor, James Beale, and his family, National Trust’s Standen is a family home with nationally important Arts & Crafts interiors, most famous for its Morris & Co. designs. The 12 acre hillside garden has been recently restored to uncover lost features and conserve the historic plant collection.

Sackville College

This historic Jacobean building, where the carol Good King Wenceslas was composed, was created for Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset in 1609, as an almshouse and accommodation for the Sackville family.

Nutley Windmill – Uckfield and District Preservation Society

Nutley Windmill standing in the beautiful Ashdown Forest is the last Open Trestle Post Mill in Sussex and one of only 5 left in the country.  She is the best preserved windmill is Sussex and …

Visit East Grinstead

The town promotion and community team for East Grinstead Town Council.

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