Catsfield

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Catsfield
Catsfield (East Sussex)
Catsfield

Catsfield shown within East Sussex
Area[1] 4.7 sq mi (12.2 km²)
Population 805 (2007)[1]
 - Density 177/sq mi (68/km²)
OS grid reference TQ725136
 - London 49 miles (79 km) NNW
District Rother
Shire county East Sussex
Region South East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BATTLE
Postcode district TN33
Dialling code 01424
Police Sussex
Fire East Sussex
Ambulance South East Coast
European Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Bexhill and Battle
List of places: UKEnglandEast Sussex

Coordinates: 50°54′N 0°27′E / 50.9, 0.45

Catsfield is a village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Bexhill. The village once consisted of two manors: Catsfield and Catsfield Levett. The manor of Catsfield Levett remained in the Levett family for centuries. In the seventeenth century a Levett heiress carried it into the Eversfield family. (Richard Lyvet of Firle was lord of the manor of Catsfield in 1431.) With a fortune built on ancestral landholdings and later on iron making, the Levetts held land across Sussex.

The parish church is dedicated to St Laurence[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b East Sussex in Figures. East Sussex County Council. Retrieved on 2008-04-26.
  2. ^ Photos of the church