Fletching, East Sussex

Infobox UK place
official_name=Fletching
country=England
region=South East England
static_

static_image_caption=Fletching village
area_footnotes=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 =25.7
population=1041 (2007)
population_density= Pop density mi2 to km2|105|precision=0|abbr=yes
os_grid_reference=TQ428234
latitude=50.99
longitude=0.03
post_town=UCKFIELD
postcode_area=TN
postcode_district=TN22
dial_code=01825
constituency_westminster=Wealden
london_distance=convert|36|mi N
shire_district=Wealden
shire_county=East Sussex

Fletching is a village [ [http://www.villagenet.co.uk/ashdownforest/villages/fletching.php "Fletching (Simon de Montfort and Jack Cade)" The Village Reference] ] and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north-west of Uckfield, near one of the entrances to Sheffield Park. The A272 road crosses the parish. The settlement of Piltdown is part of the parish. The Piltdown Man hoax in 1912 became a national scandal.

It has an historic church of St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin dating from the twelfth century [ [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Fletching/FletchingChurch2005.htm Parish church] ] . Simon de Montfort prayed there before the Battle of Lewes. Historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) is interred within the church, having died in Fletching while staying with his great friend, John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. In medieval times Fletching was a major producer of bows and arrows, many of which were used at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

The school is Fletching CE Primary school. [ [http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/educationandlearning/schools/primary/fletching8453026.htm Fletching CE Primary School] ] There are two public houses in Fletching: "The Griffin Inn" (which calls itself a "gastropub") and "The Rose and Crown". Nearby is "The Piltdown Man" at Piltdown.

The village was once the home of Jimmy Edwards (1920–1988).

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