East Sussex
Rother District
Brightling

Brightling

Brightling is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of , England. It is located on the Weald eight miles north-west of and four miles west of .
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  • Type: Village with 353 residents
  • Description: village in East Sussex, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Brightling, East Sussex”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket and Brightling Park.

Church
Photo: Poliphilo, CC0.

Building
is a country estate which lies in the parishes of Brightling and in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. It is now the home of Grissell Racing, who have operated a racehorse training facility there for more than 30 years.

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Bateman's is a 17th-century house located in , , England. It was the home of Rudyard Kipling from 1902 until his death in 1936. The house was built in 1634. is situated 2 miles northwest of Brightling.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Darwell Wood and Netherfield.

Locality
Photo: Simon Carey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 37.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of in .

Village
is a village in the civil parish of , in the Rother district, in the county of , England. In the 1870-1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, was described as a hamlet and chapelry with a population of 500. is situated 2 miles southeast of Brightling.

Locality
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is a 16.1-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of in . The SSSI is part of the larger . is situated 2½ miles west of Brightling.

Brightling

Latitude
50.96394° or 50° 57′ 50″ north
Longitude
0.39836° or 0° 23′ 54″ east
Population
353
Elevation
535 feet (163 metres)
Open location code
9F22X97X+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 457506895
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2654712
Wiki­data ID
Q785477
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Brightling” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Brightling”
  • Chinese: “布賴特林”
  • Chinese: “布赖特林”
  • Dutch: “Brightling”
  • French: “Brightling”
  • Irish: “Brightling”
  • Japanese: “ブライトリング”
  • Ladin: “Brightling”
  • Polish: “Brightling”
  • Swedish: “Brightling”
  • Turkish: “Brightling”
  • Welsh: “Brightling”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Brightling Village Hall and Oldhole Wood.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brightling”. Photo: Nigel Stickells, CC BY-SA 2.0.