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Blackboys

(Charcoal and Soot)


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Blackboys Sussex - The high street
Blackboys is a small village which lies inland from the South Downs and near to the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex in Southern England . It lies on the Heathfield to Lewes main road.

The Blackboys Inn was founded in the 1300's and was known as a coaching establishment. It is also possible that the Inn was founded as a drivers overnight resting place for those transporting the charcoal from the local woods to Lewes and other towns.

It is likely that the majority of the charcoal was used by the nearby Buxted foundry where it is believed that the first iron cannon in England was made in 1543. The main business of the village stopped in the early 1800's when the iron industry moved north to the Midlands with their large deposits of coal.

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Blackboys East Sussex - The view towards Hadlow Down ()
The village only has a few local services, with the nearest shopping centres in Heathfield to the east and Uckfield to the west.

The nearest trains run from Uckfield to London.

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Blackboys Sussex - The Uckfield road
Blackboys has really nice views to the north over the valley the whole area is quiet and peaceful.

The valley to the north is quite steep, and leads to Buxted where the first cannons in England were produced.
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There are a few explanations to the derivation of the name. One that it came from the colour of the Charcoal burners when they emerged from the woods, but the more likely explanation is that the name means Black Wood, from the soot deposited in the woods by the charcoal. The village seems to have the same type of background as that of Kilndown in Kent. There is also a possibility that the name is devived from Richard Blakeboy who lived here in the 1300's.


Nearby Villages (within 6 miles)
 
Waldron (Fullers Earth) 1.5 miles
Framfield (380 years without a church tower) 1.9 miles
Hadlow Down (Wealden Cannons and Charcoal) 2.1 miles
Buxted (The first Iron Cannon in England) 2.2 miles
Cross in Hand (The Crusaders Assembly) 2.2 miles
East Hoathly (Another Sussex Cannibal?) 2.8 miles
Uckfield (Traction Engine destroys bridge) 3.0 miles
Halland (Ancient Slaughter) 3.1 miles
High Hurstwood (Coming Soon) 3.3 miles
Five Ashes (Vast collection of rock plants) 3.5 miles
Little Horsted () 3.7 miles
Heathfield (19th Century Natural Gas) 3.9 miles
Horam (Which Station do we get off at ?) 4.1 miles
Maresfield (Soldiers and Iron) 4.1 miles
Chiddingly (Walking on Cheese ??) 4.2 miles
Keymer () 4.4 miles
Cade Street (Jack Cade and the Kentish rebellion) 4.8 miles
Piltdown (The Piltdown Man hoax) 4.8 miles
Vines Cross (Cannons and Doodlebugs) 4.8 miles
Fairwarp (Charcoal and the Army) 4.9 miles
Laughton (Knight captures King of France) 5.1 miles
Isfield (Simon de Montfort and the Lavender Line) 5.2 miles
Mayfield (Saint Dunstan and the Devil) 5.2 miles
Rotherfield (Source of the rivers Rother and Uck) 5.9 miles

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