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    Bodle Street
(White Horse on the roof)


Name Derivation
Bodle Street derives from the Bothel family who were landowners in the fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century it was recorded as Bodylstret and then Bodell Strete.


General Details

Bodle Street Sussex - The White Horse
Bodle Street is a small village lying between Windmill Hill and Punnetts Town . It is a small village with only the White Horse public house, the village hall and the church providing local services.

It was a small rural community until the coming of the Wealden iron industry , when it lay between the Ashburnham Forge and the Warbleton Forge. Much of the iron implements produced from those forges were pulled by oxen through the area, ruining the roads.

The road to Windmill Hill was produced from the slag by-product of the furnaces , and built to allow the cannons to be pulled across the valley to the hill. The closing of the Iron Works reverted the village to its rural farming roots.

The railways brought the prospect of employment when in 1865 a branch line was proposed to link up the Cuckoo Line at Hailsham to the Rother Valley Railway at Robertsbridge , but nothing came of this.


Services

Bodle Street East Sussex - St John the Evangelist
The White Horse together with the village hall and the church provide the only services.

The nearest major shopping towns are Heathfield about 8 miles north east and Hailsham about 7 miles south west.

Trains can be caught at Battle about 12 miles south east.


Views

Bodle Street East Sussex - The village sign 
The White Horse public house at Bodle Street is the only pub we know with a white horse painted on it roof.

The views across the valley to Windmill Hill are very pretty, and the area is peaceful and tranquil.


Nearby Villages (within 6 miles)
 
Windmill Hill (Largest Post Mill in Sussex) 1.4 miles
Herstmonceux (Castle and Observatory) 1.6 miles
Rushlake Green (Open Village and Nuclear Bunker) 2.2 miles
Boreham Street (Picturesque village on top of the Ridge) 2.5 miles
Ashburnham (Last Iron Furnace in Sussex) 2.6 miles
Warbleton (The Iron Man) 2.7 miles
Dallington (Custers Last Stand!) 2.9 miles
Penhurst (Beautiful yet Remote) 3.1 miles
Wartling (World War II defence centre) 3.5 miles
Punnetts Town (The Windmill on the Hill) 3.6 miles
Vines Cross (Cannons and Doodlebugs) 3.7 miles
Hellingly (Only remaining Circe in Sussex) 4.2 miles
Ninfield (Last of the Iron Stocks) 4.2 miles
Brightling (Famous for Mad Jack Fuller) 4.3 miles
Hooe (The Haunt of Smugglers) 4.3 miles
Netherfield (Arthur Blackman visits school) 4.4 miles
Horam (Which Station do we get off at ?) 4.6 miles
Burwash Common (Roughest pub in the South East) 4.8 miles
Catsfield (Iron Railways and Clocks) 4.8 miles
Burwash Weald (Roughest pub in the South East) 4.9 miles
Cade Street (Jack Cade and the Kentish rebellion) 4.9 miles
Hailsham (Ropes and Napoleon) 4.9 miles
Heathfield (19th Century Natural Gas) 5.4 miles
Normans Bay (Last Invasion in 1066) 5.9 miles

 
       
 
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