HOLLINGTON
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An ancient ward of land south and east of of Upper Wilting Farm dating back to Roman times containing Church in the Wood and the Hollington Stream in important woodland.
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Wikipedia says of its history:
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Hollington is a council estate 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.
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The area is believed to have been occupied since at least Roman times prior to becoming farmland and subsequently developed during the 1930s onwards.
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Hollington was the location of The Grove School, which was incorporated into The St Leonards Academy becoming known as the 'Darwell Campus'. The school, which was constructed at the location of The Grove, the manor house for the Lords of the Manor of Hollington. The Levett family built The Grove, and then the property was carried into the Eversfield family by a Levett heiress. 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. 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. The school buildings were demolished circa 2017 and the land is earmarked for housing development.
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The Hollington Stream runs from Silverhill, Hastings, through Hollington Wood towards the sea at Bulverhythe.
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See also the very large Wikipedia entry about ancient Church in the Wood:
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hollington like this:
HOLLINGTON, a parish in Battle district, Sussex; near the Hastings and Tunbridge railway, 2 miles N by E of St. Leonards r. station, and 2½ NNW of Hastings. Post town, Hastings. Acres, 2, 470. Real property, £4, 083. Pop. in 1861, 531. Houses, 93. Pop. in 1866, about 900. The property is much subdivided. ...
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Beauport Park is the seat of Sir Archibald Lamb, Bart.; and contains a remarkably fine collection of conifera. Beech Farm belongs to James R. Lewis, Esq.; and has a remarkably large beech tree, which serves as a landmark to mariners. Numerous fine houses have recently been erected; among which are Beauchamp, Woodend, Fernside, Nutholme, High Beech, and the Vicarage. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £250.* Patron,J. Eversfield, Esq. The parochial church is ancient; stands in a wood of 200 acres; has been restored by Miss Dampier, in memory of her mother; and a memorial window to Sir Charles M. Lamb, Bart., was erected in it in 1862. St. John's church, in the lower part of the parish, was built in 1866 as a chapel of ease, at a cost of about £3, 500; and is a handsome edifice in the early English style. There is a parochial school. The parish of St. Leonard-on-the-Sea is supposed to have once been included in Hollington parish; being designated, in old documents, St. Leonards-in-Hollington.
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