Hollington, Hastings

Hollington

St John the Evangelist Church near Hollington, East Sussex
Hollington
Hollington shown within East Sussex
Population 6,099 (ward. 2011)[1]
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA
Postcode district TN38
Police Sussex
Fire East Sussex
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Hollington is a suburb and local government ward in the northwest of Hastings, East Sussex. The area lies next to Baldslow, Ashdown, North and Conquest, and less than five miles southeast of Battle, East Sussex, the home of Battle Abbey, which commemorates the victory of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. IN 2016 new homes started raising near Robsack Community centre.

Hollington was the site of The Grove School, which has now been replaced by The St Leonards Academy.[2] It was also once the location of The Grove, the manor house for the lords of the manor of Hollington.[3][4] The Levett family built The Grove, and then the property was carried into the Eversfield family by a Levett heiress.[5][6][7] The eventual lord of the manor became Thomas Eversfield of Uckfield, bringing the Eversfield family from their early Sussex beginnings to the Hastings area, where they would go on to play a prominent role for centuries.[8] The Eversfields inherited when Levett heir Lawrence Levett died without issue, leaving his estate to his sister Mary (Levett) Eversfield, wife of Thomas Eversfield. Adam Ashburnham, ancestor of the Ashburnham baronets of Broomham and half-brother of Lawrence Levett, inherited some of their mother Eve Adams Levett Ashburnham's property at Guestling.[9][10]

The Hollington Stream runs from Silverhill, Hastings, through Hollington Wood towards the sea at Bulverhythe. [11]

References

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  2. "The Hastings Academy, Hastings, East Sussex, UK – East Sussex County Council". Eastsussex.gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  3. "Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of ...". Books.google.com. p. 149. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
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  6. Mark Antony Lower. "A Compendious History of Sussex: Topographical, Archćological & Anecdotical ...". Books.google.com. p. 236. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  7. "Square Toes and Formal" (PDF). Squaretoes.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  8. "Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of ...". Books.google.com. p. 111. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  9. "Full text of "Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex. 1 Henry VII, to 1649 and after. Abstracted and translated by F.W.T. Attree"". Archive.org. 1912-02-14. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  10. Thomas Benolt; John Philipot; George Owen. "The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530". Books.google.com. p. 18. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
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