Burwash

It would be difficult to find a more satisfying village, even in Sussex, than Burwash, for not only is it composed of unspoilt medieval buildings, rich in the mellow colouring of Time, but from its ridge it commands extensive views of rare beauty, both by day and by night. ..... Burwash stands on that great highway which goes north-east from Brighton to Canterbury by Lewes, Heathfield, Hurst green, Tenterden, and Ashford, and this highway is just on the 300 feet level when it becomes Burwash High Street - a slightly winding half-mile of ancient houses, shops and inns, with several dwellings of the manor house sort. On the north side of the street is a raised causeway with a row of pollard limes along its border and, summer and winter alike these trees add a singular charm to the village. The western approach to Burwash has a particularily effective fringe of firs; indeed, I know of no more lovely foreground for a sunset than those firs, seen as one looks along the street. When that misty red dusk, which betokens a fine day on the morrow, is filtering through those gaunt black pines, and when lights begin to appear amidst the old tiled and timbered houses, there is a strange old-world feeling over the scene, as if one were looking upon some wealden sunset of the Middle Ages. extract from Rudyard Kipling's Village by William A. Ramsay published in 1934

Burwash is a village and parish, partly in the hundreds of Henhurst and Shoyswell, but chiefly in that of Hawkesborough, Eastern division of the county, Ticehurst union, Tunbridge Wells county court district, Hastings rape, rural deanery of Dallington, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester, 2 ½ miles south-east front Etchingham station, on the Hastings and Tunbridge branch of the South Eastern railway, 48 from London and 12 south-east from Tunbridge Wells, on the road from Lewes to Hawkhurst. Burwash, under its old form of "Burghersh", gives a title to the eldest son of the Earl of Westmorland and means "the town in the forest", or "the fortified hill in the wood". The church of St. Bartholomew, partly in the Early English style and partly of later date, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, west porch and a western tower with spire containing 5 bells

Burwash directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period

Parish & other records		Before 1500	1500 to 1550	1550 to 1600	1600 to 1650	1650 to 1700	1700 to 1725	1725 to 1750	1750 to 1775	1775 to 1800	1800 to 1825	1825 to 1850	1850 to 1875	1875 to 1900	1900 to 1925	1925 to 1950	1950 to 1975	1975 to 2000	After 2000
5967	Births		3	24	28	17	58	134	215	493	839	1726	1418	1010	2
2252	Christenings			17	27	14	53	131	203	341	444	516	360	146
856	Marriages			16	34	22	14	36	44	120	138	228	168	36
58	Deaths							1	4	7	11	15	13	7
64	Burials							1	7	10	10	17	12	7

Books and other documents

The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. in 1835 - Page 577

A Compendious History of Sussex - Volume I. by Mark Antony Lower, M.A. in 1870 - Page 90

Kelly's Directory of Sussex by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. in 1882

Burwash Parish Magazine for 1901 in 1901

Burwash Parish Magazine for 1908 in 1908

Rudyard Kipling's Village by William A. Ramsey in 1934 - Page 228

Rudyard Kipling and Sussex by Arthur Beckett in 1936 - Page 144

People of note	Kipling, Rudyard (1865 -1936) Author

Burwash pictures	Burwash Church c 1785	Burwash 1900	Burwash 1900	High Street 1900	Burwash Weald 1904	Burwash 1905	High Street, Burwash 1906
	Upper Street 1906	In Kiplings Country 1906	High Street 1907	High Street 1907	Upper Street 1907	St Bartholomews Church 1907	Lower PayGate 1907

Sussex Maps	1610	1645	1695	1750	1763	1st Sept 1787	1808
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