Chalvington The village of
Chalvington (
Charnton in the traditional
Sussex dialect) is named
Calvintone or
Caveltone in the
Domesday Book of 1086. It is located in the area between the
A27 and the
A22 roads, some north-west of
Eastbourne. The name Chalvington is first attested as
Caveltone and
Calvintone in
Domesday Book; it is
Old English in origin, and means ''Cealfa's farm''. Many local names derive from the Anglo-Saxon occupation of the area. There is one public house in the village, the Yew Tree Inn. The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew.
Ripe Ripe is a village within the
Wealden District of
East Sussex, England. It is located east of
Lewes in the valley north of the
South Downs. The two villages are adjacent to one another, Ripe ecclesiastical parish being the larger of the two in area. There is limited public transport to the village. The village, in a mainly rural area, is mentioned in the
Domesday Book and has had a number of names, including
Alchitone,
Achiltone,
Achintone,
Echentone and
Eckington. The 13th-century parish church is dedicated to St
John the Baptist. There is limited public transport to the village. At the end of the
Anglo-Saxon period it was owned by Earl Harold Godwinson, who become
King Harold II and was killed at the
Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Domesday Book mentions 'Rype' and 'Echentone' which were owned by Richer de Aquila (
L'Aigle), and the church is also mentioned in
Pope Nicholas IV's
Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291, an ecclesiastical tax assessment survey. The novelist
Malcolm Lowry, best known for
Under the Volcano, died at age 47 in a boarding house in Ripe on 27 June 1957. Lowry is buried in the village churchyard. Ripe was also the retirement home of the tattooed performer
Horace Ridler (the Great Omi) who died there in 1969. There was one public house, now closed. ==References==