Burwash

Burwash
Burwash High Street
Burwash is located in East Sussex
Burwash
Burwash
Location within East Sussex
Area30.1 km2 (11.6 sq mi) [1]
Population2,713 (2011)[2]
• Density217/sq mi (84/km2)
OS grid referenceTQ675247
• London41 miles (66 km) NNW
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townETCHINGHAM
Postcode districtTN19
Dialling code01435
PoliceSussex
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AmbulanceSouth East Coast
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51°00′N 0°23′E / 51.00°N 0.39°E / 51.00; 0.39

Burwash, archaically known as Burghersh, is a rural village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. Situated in the High Weald of Sussex some 15 miles (24 km) inland from the port of Hastings, it is located five miles (8 km) south-west of Hurst Green, on the A265 road, and on the River Dudwell, a tributary of the River Rother. In an area steeped in history, some nine miles (14 km) to the south-east lies Battle Abbey and eight miles (13 km) to the east is Bodiam Castle.

Its main claim to fame is that for half of his life Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) lived in the village at Bateman's. Kipling used the house's setting and the wider local area as the setting for many of his stories in Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and the sequel Rewards and Fairies (1910), and there is a Kipling room at "The Bear" public house, one of two pubs located along Burwash High Street. Rudyard's son, John Kipling, died during the First World War and is named on the village war memorial at the end of Bell Alley Lane. He was named after Rudyard's father, the artist John Lockwood Kipling, (1837–1911), who provided illustrations for The Jungle Book. A complete collection of Kipling's works, including Just So Stories, Rewards and Fairies, The Man Who Would Be King and Kim, was published as the "Burwash Edition" (1941).

  1. ^ "East Sussex in Figures". East Sussex County Council. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2015.