Burwash, East Sussex

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Burwash
Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TQ6750024700
Administration
District:	Lewes
Shire county:	East Sussex
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	East Sussex
Historic county:	Sussex
Services
Police force:	Sussex Police
Fire and rescue:	{{{Fire}}}
Ambulance:	South East Coast
Post office and telephone
Post town:
Postal district:
Dialling code:	01435
Politics
UK Parliament:	Lewis
European Parliament:	South East England

Burwash is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located five miles five (8 km) south-west of Hurst Green, on the A265 road, and on the River Dudwell.

Its main claim to fame is that for half of his life Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) lived in the village at Bateman's. Kipling used the house's setting and the wider local area as the setting for many of his stories in Puck of Pook's Hill (1907).

Smuggling took place here in the 18th century (several smuggler's graves can still be seen in the churchyard of St. Bartholomew's); and earlier it had been one of the villages involved in the Wealden iron industry.

The cricketer, Albert Relf (1874-1937) was born here, and The Who frontman Roger Daltrey maintains a country estate in the Burwash area.