Buxted is a small village in the Wealden District of East Sussex. It is situated on the A272 road north-east of the town of Uckfield. It is also within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The parish of Buxted includes the smaller villages of Five Ash Down, Heron's Ghyll and High Hurstwood. Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England. ... East Sussex is a county in South East England. ... The A272 is a British road which runs from Winchester in the west to Poundford in the east. ... Statistics Population: 15,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TQ473213 Administration District: Wealden Shire county: East Sussex Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: East Sussex Historic county: Sussex Services Police force: {{{Police}}} Ambulance service: South East Coast Post office and telephone Post... A weald once meant a dense forest, especially the famous great wood once stretching far beyond the ancient counties of Sussex and Kent, England, where this country of smaller woods is still called the Weald. ... An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is an area of countryside with significant landscape value in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, that has been specially designated by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the United Kingdom government. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...

Coordinates 50°59′23″N, 00°07′57″E

The first blast furnace at least of the usual kind, called Queenstock, was built in Buxted parish in about 1491.^[1] The cannon making industry in the Weald started at a furnace on the stream at Hoggets Farm lying to the north between Buxted and Hadlow Down. The first cast iron cannon made in England was cast in 1543 by Ralf Hogge, an employee of Parson William Levett, a Sussex rector with broad interests in the emerging English armaments industry. Levett, who lost his position as the village rector due to ongoing religious strife, later regained it, and died a very wealthy man, thanks to his iron mining and smelting operations, originally founded by his brother John Levett.^[2] Blast furnace in Sestao, Spain. ... // Events December 6 - King Charles VIII marries Anne de Bretagne, thus incorporating Brittany into the kingdom of France. ... A weald once meant a dense forest, especially the famous great wood once stretching far beyond the ancient counties of Sussex and Kent, England, where this country of smaller woods is still called the Weald. ... Hadlow Down is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... // Events February 21 - Battle of Wayna Daga - A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeat the armies of Adal led by Ahmed Gragn. ... Ralf Hogge (his name has also been rendered Ralph and Huggett) was an English iron-master and gun founder to the king. ...

Buxted Chickens had a factory in Buxted as well as one in Five Ash Down, Buxted Chickens was the idea of Antony Fisher, who went on to found the Institute of Economic Affairs. The Buxted brand is now owned by Grampian Country Food Group. The Buxted site closed down in the 1980s. Antony Fisher (1915 - 1988) was one of the most influential background players in the global rise of libertarian think-tanks during the second half of the twentieth century, founding the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. ... The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a London-based conservative think tank. ...

The centre of the village was originally the mansion known as Buxted Park. Buxted Park was the home of the family of Prime Minister the Earl of Liverpool. The village (although not the church of St Margaret) was cleared away in the 19th century in order to provide more parkland for the mansion, and the village then moved to its present location along the High Street. Buxted Park is now a country house hotel. The original manor house was built further down the hill next to the railway where Queen Victoria and Lord Liverpool once visited - the house being the Chequers of its day. The original house burnt down in the latter part of the 19th century and was rebuilt in its present location. The title of Earl of Liverpool has been created twice in British history. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819–22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. ...

Buxted retains a railway station. The railway formerly linked London and Brighton but now only extends from London to Uckfield. Buxted railway station serves Buxted in East Sussex. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other places with the same name, see Brighton (disambiguation). ... Statistics Population: 15,000 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TQ473213 Administration District: Wealden Shire county: East Sussex Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: East Sussex Historic county: Sussex Services Police force: {{{Police}}} Ambulance service: South East Coast Post office and telephone Post...

References

1. ^ B. Awty & Chris Whittick (with Pam Combes), 'The Lordship of Canterbury, iron-founding at Buxted, and the continental antecedents of cannon-founding in the Weald' Sussex Archaeological Collections 140 (2004 for 2002), 71-81
2. ^ B. Awty, 'Parson Levett and English cannon founding' Sussex Archaeological Collections 127 (1989), 133-45.

External links

• Parish website
• Old views and maps of Buxted

Coordinates: 50°59′N 0°08′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...