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Crowborough is the largest inland town in East Sussex, United Kingdom. No one is quite sure of the origins of the name. The most prosaic interpretation is that it was frequented by crows. However crows are not by nature flocking birds unlike rooks which are also numerous in the area. Crowborough's early industry was iron smelting and it was suggested in the Story of Crowborough published by the Courier in 1933 that Crowborough derived its name from the Irish for Iron or Croe. Malcolm Payne who wrote Crowborough - The Growth of a Wealden Town in 1985 wrote that it was possible that its name was based upon its visual aesthetics. Croh is a Saxon word for saffron or saffron coloured. It was possible therefore that people looking at the hill in spring or early summer would have seen a hill covered in yellowish-golden gorse and would have referred to it as the ochre-coloured barrow which later got shortened to Crowborough. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
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Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England. ...
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Wealden is a constituency covering the Wealden district in East Sussex. ...
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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. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004...
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A Marilyn is a hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit. ...
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Crowborough was generally thought to be an uncivilised place until Henry Fermor bequeathed money for a Church and Charity School in his will in 1734 for the benefit of the 'very ignorant and heathenish people' that lived there. The Church and School still survive today.
In Victorian times it was promoted as a health resort based on its high elevation, the rolling hills and surrounding forest. Some went as far as to call it 'Scotland in Sussex'.
It is the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, whose unique statue stands in the town centre and Richard Jefferies. It is also home of the English Grand Lodge for Europe and Africa of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ...
Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Edward Paget, in The Strand magazine. ...
John Richard Jefferies (November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1888 ) was an English writer of journalism and fiction on the countryside. ...
The Rosicrucian Order, Ancient Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC) is a worldwide mystical, Rosicrucian, educational, humanitarian and fraternal organisation founded by Harve Spencer Lewis in 1915. ...
Crowborough shares the headquarters of Wealden District Council with nearby Hailsham. It is twinned with the French town Montargis and the Lancashire town Horwich. Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England. ...
Location within the British Isles Hailsham is a town in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. ...
Sign denoting twin towns of Neckarsulm Town twinning or sister cities is a concept where towns or cities from geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links. ...
Montargis is a commune of the Loiret département in France. ...
Location within the British Isles Horwich (pronounced Horrich) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foot of the West Pennine Moors, half way between Bolton and Chorley. ...
The town is on the summit of one of the highest points in East Sussex. The relative height of the highest point of the town is 159 m, meaning Crowborough qualifies as one of England's Marilyns. The actual summit is not marked in any way on the ground, however. In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height or prime factor (in Europe), is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains. ...
metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre (in the U.S., chiefly meter) is a measure of length, approximately equal to 3. ...
A Marilyn is a hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit. ...
Nowadays, Crowborough is not so rural as it once was. Being only about 55 km from Central London, many of the larger chains have taken over this small town, and it is now far more similar to the larger town of Tunbridge Wells, located approximately 7 miles away. It is also approximately 10 miles from Uckfield. Poo Tunbridge Wells (officially Royal Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ...
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