Buxted

Buxted is a small village in Sussex (now East Sussex), near the larger town of Uckfield. It is in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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It is credited as being the birthplace of the cannon, although actually the cannon was invented in a small house near Five Ashes.

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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 order to provide more parkland for the mansion, and the village then moved to its present location along the High Street. Buxted Park was, during the Second World War (by which time it belonged to the shipping magnate Basil Ionides)

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Buxted retains a railway station but the line, which formerly linked London and Brighton, now terminates at Uckfield instead of Brighton.

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Sussex: Sussex is a traditional county in southern England, divided for administrative purposes into West Sussex and East Sussex and the city of Brighton and Hove....

Uckfield: Uckfield is a town in the county of East Sussex, in the south of England. It is in the East Grinstead division of Sussex, in the hundred of Loxfield, Dorset, rape of Pevensey, rural deanery of Uckfield, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. Uckfield is 16 miles north-east of Brighton and ...

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) are areas of countryside with significant landscape value, specially designated by a government agency in the United Kingdom....