Ridgewood, East Sussex

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Ridgewood is a suburb of Uckfield in South East England

Ridgewood is a village on the south of Uckfield in the South East of England. The village includes the Uckfield Millennium Green, with an area of 100 acres, making it one of the largest in England. The area used to be home to Wares Potteries, owned by Benjamin Wares which operated until 1963 producing tiles and other ceramic products. The name of the factory is commemorated in the nearby Wares Road. In the Uckfield Millennium Green is a deep quarry where clay was dug in the 19th and 20th centuries and brought by tram up to the workhouse in the top corner of what is now Wares Road. Here the clay was processed and fired into pottery which is popular for collectors today.

Ridgewood has no church, three nursing homes, (one council - Ridgewood Rise, Two private: Copper Beech house (Bupa), Ridgewood Manor.) It has a number of care centres for the disabled - The New Inn and Ridgewood House. It has a post office (with adjoining shop) and two bus routes passing through it to Eastbourne via Hailsham and Brighton Via Isfield / Halland and Lewes to the south, and Uckfield, Crowborough and Tunbridge Wells to the North. There are two pubs in the Ridgewood village-The Brickmakers Arms and The Highlands, as well as a local hall which is often used for community events and polling.

The area is threatened by potential developments (construction of 650 new homes directly around the area) on mainly green field land; this has been fought against by much of the local population.^{[citation needed]}