- Rodmell
Infobox UK place
official_name=Rodmell
country=England
region=South East England
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area_footnotes= -"inc Southease"cite web |url=http://www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk/webview/ |title=East Sussex in Figures |accessdate=2008-04-26 |publisher=East Sussex County Council]
area_total_km2 = 11.3
population=502 (Parish-2007)
"includesSouthease
population_density= Pop density mi2 to km2|116|precision=0|abbr=yes
os_grid_reference=TQ418059
latitude=50.84
longitude=0.01
post_town=LEWES
postcode_area=BN
postcode_district=BN7
dial_code=01273
constituency_westminster=Lewes
london_distance=convert|46|mi N
shire_district=Lewes
shire_county=East Sussex
website=http://www.rodmell.net/Rodmell is a small village and
civil parish in the Lewes District ofEast Sussex ,England . It is located three miles (4.8 km) south-west ofLewes , on theLewes to Newhaven road and is situated by the west banks of the River Ouse. The village is served bySouthease railway station opened in 1906.It has an early Norman church, dedicated to St. Peter, whose font is believed to be Saxon, predating the building itself. Fact|date=May 2008
Monk's House is located in the village, the home of the authorVirginia Woolf for twenty-one years until her death in 1941. She left this house for the last time on28 March 1941 , took a walk through the local fields, and drowned herself in the nearby River Ouse. Her husbandLeonard Woolf continued to live there until his death in 1969, and after a few more residents had passed through, it was bought by theUniversity of Sussex , before being acquired and restored by the National Trust.The village is bisected by the road from
Lewes to Newhaven which passes through Iford. This road also passes the neighbouring village ofSouthease .Breaky Bottom is the name of a valley within the parish. Breaky Bottom
vineyard produces a well-known Englishwine and former gold medallist in the Wine Magazine International Wine Challenge. [ [http://www.breakybottom.co.uk/mainindex.htm Breaky Bottom Winery website] ]References
External links
* [http://www.rodmell.net Village website]
* [http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/SSX/Rodmell Map showing the location of Rodmell parish]
* [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/rodsp/index.htm Details of Church of Saint Peter, Rodmell, from Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland]
* [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/sx/rodme/index.htm Details of Rodmell Rectory from Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland]
* [http://www.thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk/brighton__hove/homes/area_guides/rodmell.html Guide to Rodmell]
* [http://www.visitbytrain.freeuk.com/esussex/southease.htm Visit by Trains' map showing both Rodmell] andSouthease railway station
* [http://homepages.pavilion.net/nmarchant/rodmell.htm Photos of Rodmell from Nigel Marchants' collection of photos from around Southern England.]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56919 Parishes - Rodmell from British History Online]
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