Bodle Street - (White Horse on the roof)

General Details

Bodle Street in East Sussex 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.

Views

Bodle Street East Sussex - St John the Evangelist

The White Horse public house at Bodle Street in East Sussex 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.

Services

Bodle Street East Sussex - The village sign

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.

Map

Bodle Street is shown as the red symbol on the map.

Nearby Villages
(click on symbol to see the village page)

Ashburnham

(Last Iron Furnace in Sussex)

2.21 miles

Battle

(William the Conqueror prevails)

6.19 miles

Boreham Street

(Picturesque village on top of the Ridge)

2.78 miles

Brightling

(famous for Mad Jack Fuller)

4.27 miles

Cade Street

(Jack Cade and the Kentish rebellion)

4.47 miles

Catsfield

(Iron, Railways and Clocks)

4.89 miles

Chiddingly

(Walking on Cheese ??)

6.47 miles

Dallington

(Custers Last Stand!)

2.39 miles

Hailsham

(Ropes and Napoleon)

5.14 miles

Heathfield

(19th Century Natural Gas)

5.26 miles

Hellingly

(Only remaining Ciric in Sussex)

4.54 miles

Herstmonceux

(Castle and Observatory)

1.93 miles

Hooe

(The Haunt of Smugglers)

4.12 miles

Horam

(Which Station do we get off at ?)

4.56 miles

Mountfield

(17th Century Coal !!)

6.70 miles

Netherfield

(Village at the top of the Hill)

4.41 miles

Ninfield

(Last of the Iron Stocks)

4.14 miles

Penhurst

(Beautiful yet Remote)

2.99 miles

Punnetts Town

(The Windmill on the Hill)

3.36 miles

Rushlake Green

(Open Village and Nuclear Bunker)

2.32 miles

Vines Cross

(Cannons and Doodlebugs)

3.71 miles

Waldron

(Fullers Earth)

6.61 miles

Warbleton

(The Iron Man)

3.02 miles

Wartling

(World War II defence centre)

3.77 miles

Windmill Hill

(Largest Post Mill in Sussex)

2.00 miles

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