Hadlow Down is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Wealden

Wealden

For the stone, see Wealden GroupWealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England: its name comes from the Weald, the area of high land which occupies the centre of its area.-History:...

 District of East Sussex

East Sussex

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, England

England

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. It is located on the A272 road

A272 road

The A272 is a road in South-East England. It follows an approximate East-West route from near Heathfield, East Sussex to the city of Winchester, Hampshire. It has achieved somewhat unlikely fame in recent years by being the subject of a book by the Dutch author, Pieter Boogaart...

 three miles (4.8 km) north-east of Heathfield

Heathfield, East Sussex

Heathfield is a small market town, and the principal settlement in the civil parish of Heathfield and Waldron in the Wealden District of East Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, England.-Location:...

. The parish is within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

High Weald AONB

The High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is situated in south-east England. Covering an area of , it extends across the counties of Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent. It is the fourth largest Area of Outstanding Beauty in England and Wales...

. It came to prominence with the Wealden iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...

 industry in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The parish church, built and consecrated in 1836

St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down

St Mark's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Hadlow Down in the district of Wealden, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex...

, is dedicated to St Mark

Mark the Evangelist

Mark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity....

, and was rebuilt just before World War I

World War I

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. Edmond William Costello

Edmond William Costello

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 (1873-1949), holder of the Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross

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, is buried in the churchyard; and Diana Rowden

Diana Rowden

Diana Hope Rowden MBE was a Special Operations Executive member who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.-Early life:...

 (1915–44), SOE

Special Operations Executive

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 agent, lived at Hadlow Down before World War II

World War II

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. A former Calvinistic Baptist

Reformed Baptist

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 chapel, Providence Chapel

Providence Chapel, Hadlow Down

Providence Chapel is a former Calvinistic Baptist place of worship in the village of Hadlow Down in Wealden, one of six local government districts in the English county of East Sussex. Although built in 1849, the chapel can trace its origins to the founding in 1824 of an Independent Baptist place...

, stands on Main Road; it was built in 1849 and converted into a house in 1996.

There is a village school: Hadlow Down CE Primary School.

Leisure

Wilderness Wood, a 61 acre (24.6 ha) of woodland, is located here, as is the Great Bush Railway

Great Bush Railway

The Great Bush Railway is a private 2' gauge railway running round the edge of Tinker's Park, Hadlow Down, Sussex. The railway is operated by the Claude Jessett Trust Company.- Locomotives :-See also:* British narrow gauge railways*...

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Cricket

Hadlow Down merged in 2007 with a Brighton-based club, Moulsecoomb Wanderers, to form Hadlow Down and Moulsecoomb Wanderers Cricket Club, or HDMWCC.. HDMWCC play league and friendly cricket, currently competing in Division 8 of the East Sussex Cricket League.

Landmarks

Two Sites of Special Scientific Interest are located within the parish. Hastingford Cutting

Hastingford Cutting

Hastingford Cutting is a 0.05 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, England. The site was notified in 1990 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981....

 is of geological interest, the cutting exposing a sequence of rocks indicating a lake/lagoon shoreface once existed at the site. Stockland Farm Meadows

Stockland Farm Meadows

Stockland Farm Meadows is a 5.8 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, England. The site was notified in 1992 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981....

is a site of biological importance, consisting of two meadows, the grassland providing habitat for a variety of flora and fauna.