Little Horsted

Infobox UK place
official_name=Little Horsted
country=England
region=South East England
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static_image_caption=
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 =10.7
population= 168 (2007)
population_density= Pop density mi2 to km2|41|precision=0|abbr=yes
os_grid_reference=TQ469183
latitude=50.95
longitude=0.09
post_town=UCKFIELD
postcode_area=TN
postcode_district=TN22
dial_code=01825
constituency_westminster=Wealden
london_distance=convert|39|mi NNW
shire_district=Wealden
shire_county=East Sussex

Little Horsted (also known as "Horsted Parva") is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Uckfield, on the A22 road.

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book. The church is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. "Horsted Place", now a country hotel is located in the village, together with two golf courses, including the East Sussex National.

History

Among the prime movers of the early Wealden iron industry were the Levett family. The family's iron interests were begun by John Levett of Little Horsted. On Levett's early death, his share of the family's interests in the emerging iron industry of the Weald went to his brother, an Oxford-trained rector in Buxted. William Levett (vicar) took to his unlikely role and became the leading armaments supplier to the King. In his will of 1533, John Levett left his iron mills and furnaces to his brother, with the provision that his children be cared for with the proceeds. Levett's widow Eve Adam remarried Laurence Ashburnham [ [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62923 Marriage of Eve (Adam) Levett to Laurence Ashburnham, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5, Edward Hasted, 1798, Institute of Historical Research, British History Online, british-history.ac.uk] ] , ancestor of the Ashburnham Baronets of Broomham, Sussex. [ [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=179-amsx&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18 Will of John Levett, LIttle Horsted, Gent., East Sussex Record Office, Lewes, nationalarchives.gov.uk] ]

Landmarks

Within the parish is the Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum, which includes the following attractions:
* Motor Museum of old cars
* Large ponds full of native and exotic ducks, geese and flamingoes
* Café
* Gift shop
* Miniature railway that one can ride on
* Forest which, every year, holds a woodland crafts festival

References

External links

* [http://thesussexweald.org/P5.asp?PId=4858LHrstd Little Horsted]