Guestling

Guestling is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is located 3.25 miles (5.23 km) north-east of Hastings on the A259 road to Rye. Its parish church is dedicated to St Laurence.

Guestling
Guestling
Location within East Sussex
Area15.9 km2 (6.1 sq mi) [1]
Population1,432 (Parish-2011)[2]
• Density207/sq mi (80/km2)
OS grid referenceTQ848132
• London53 miles (85 km) NW
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHASTINGS
Postcode districtTN35
Dialling code01424
PoliceSussex
FireEast Sussex
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament

History

Guestling, referred to in the Doomsday book as Gestelinges, was originally named as a settlement of the family of a man named Gyrstel.[3] The Doomsday book also showed that in 1086, the village consisted of twenty one households, 14 villagers and 7 cottagers.[4]

In 1542, Gregory Martin was born in Guestling and went on to do the majority of the translation for the Douay–Rheims_Bible, the first full official Catholic English Bible translation.[5] In 1896, hand made bricks were first produced in Guestling,[6] which would go on to be used in Royal locations such as Buckingham Palace and Hampton Court.[5]

In June 2017, Brian Bellhouse was trampled to death by a herd of cows in a field at Church Lane, Guestling.[7][8]

Geography

The village of Guestling is located 2 miles (3.2 km) from the coast, and about 3.25 miles (5.23 km) north east of Hastings[9] The village is a scattered one, consisting of multiple parts — Guestling Green and Guestling Thorn; the hamlet of Three Oaks lies within the parish.[10]

Landmarks and culture

The village was likely originally centred around the St Laurence's Church, built in the 11th century - the building has a Norman tower which has been Grade I listed since 1961.[11] However, the villagers moved further away from the church, possibly due to victims of an outbreak of black death buried in the church graveyard.[12][13] Also buried in the graveyard was Olive Brockwell, nanny of Christopher Robin Milne.[14] The church had been restored in 1886, however the restorations where damaged by a fire in 1890.[15] The village's war memorials are located within the church, with 24 names from World War I and 8 from World War II.[16] There has been an annual Flower Festival since the 1990s at St Laurence's Church.[17]

The school in the village is the Guestling-Bradshaw CE Primary School, which dates back to 1835.[18]

References
  1. "East Sussex in Figures". East Sussex County Council. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
  2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  3. Mills, A. D. (2011). A dictionary of British place-names. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780199609086.
  4. Powell-Smith, Anna. "Open Domesday". Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. "Guestling Parish Council". Guestling Parish Council. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  6. "Refurbishment". Royal Institute of British Architects Journal. RIBA Magazines 1990. 97. 1990.
  7. "Tributes to Oxford Professor who was trampled by herd of cows | Meridian - ITV News". Itv.com. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  8. "Former Oxford professor Brian Bellhouse 'trampled to death by cows' (From Oxford Mail)". Oxfordmail.co.uk. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  9. "History of Guestling, in Rother and Sussex". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  10. Google (1 March 2020). "Guestling" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  11. "St Laurence, Church Lane". Historic England. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  12. Collins, Mark. "Westfield, (East Sussex)". Sussex OPC. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  13. "Guestling in East Sussex". Village Net. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  14. "THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE". Historic England. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  15. "Guestling Church: Church of St Laurence". Weald and Downland Churches. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  16. Comber, Chris. "Guestling War Memorial". Roll of Honour. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  17. "Popular Guestling Flower Festival returns for another year". Rye and Battle Observer. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  18. "Our School". Guestling Bradshaw CE Primary School. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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