Northeye
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Northeye | |
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![]() Site of the medieval village | |
Location within East Sussex | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Sussex |
Fire | East Sussex |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
Northeye is the site of an abandoned medieval village known as Hooe Level on the Pevensey Levels, west of Bexhill-on-Sea. The village is mentioned as a dependent limb of the Cinque Port of Hastings in a charter of 1229. It is thought to have been deserted around 1400 AD. The village consisted of houses and a flint built chapel, The Chapel of St James.
Before the Pevensey Marshes were silted up and reclaimed, Northeye was an island in an inlet that reached inland to Hailsham.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Driver, Leigh (1 June 2009). The Lost Villages of England. New Holland Publishers. p. 53.