Hollington, East Sussex

Hollington is a suburb and local government ward in the northwest of Hastings, East Sussex. The area lies next Baldslow, Ashdown to and Conquest, and less than five miles southeast of Battle, East Sussex, the home of Battle Abbey, which commemorates the victory of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Hollington is the site of The Grove School, and once the location of The Grove, the manor house for the lords of the manor of Hollington. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=tEoJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=levit+sussex&source=web&ots=WuXwdm8RXT&sig=0j9vehpMYoEhFagrqphoFG-qjsk&hl=en#PPA149,M1 Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of Sussex, 1869] ] [ [http://www.grove.e-sussex.sch.uk/?page_id=126 History of the Grove Manor, The Grove School, Hollington] ] The Levett family built The Grove, and then the property was carried into the Eversfield family by a Levett heiress. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=sEgJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=%22the+grove%22+hollington+eversfield&source=web&ots=8BArHOizXK&sig=Vev90R3v_W4p_PyGxrQOwVPvduo&hl=en History of The Grove, Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of Sussex, 1862] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=o28uAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236&lpg=PA236&dq=levitt+hollington+sussex&source=web&ots=PrFmvtPG0-&sig=J1ZW5NM-61Uwz4SvDNkFX8qZUNg&hl=en A Compendious History of Sussex, Mark Antony Lower, 1870] ] [ [http://www.squaretoes.co.uk/images/square_toes.pdf History of Lawrence Levett, The Grove] ] The eventual lord of the manor became Thomas Eversfield of Uckfield, bringing the Eversfield family from their early Sussex beginnings to the Hastings area, where they would go on to play a prominent role for centuries. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=cjcGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=ashburnham+levets&source=web&ots=S6tHn9oxy4&sig=vVGTPdncMuyO9u1re7ZWZ0IJYo4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Sussex Archaeological Collections relating to the History and Antiquities, Sussex Archaeological Society, 1862] ]

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* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-0117(1959)2%3A11%3A3%3C467%3ATFOSGF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y The Fortunes of Some Gentry Families of Elizabethan Sussex, J.E. Mousley, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 11, 1959, pp. 467-483]