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{{Short description|Village and parish in East Sussex, England}}
{{for|the village in Kent|Hadlow}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name            = Hadlow Down
| country                  = England
| region                   = South East England
| static_image             = Hadlow Down Church - geograph.org.uk - 393921.jpg
| static_image_caption     = [[St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down|St Mark's Church]]
| area_footnotes           = <ref name=ESiF>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk/webview/ |title=East Sussex in Figures |access-date=26 April 2008 |publisher=East Sussex County Council}}</ref>
| area_total_km2           = 17.0
| population               = 857
| population_ref           = (Parish-2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124110&c=TN20+6JH&d=16&e=62&g=6421721&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1444311434945&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=8 October 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104150/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124110&c=TN20+6JH&d=16&e=62&g=6421721&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1444311434945&enc=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| population_density       = {{convert|109|/sqmi|/km2|abbr=on}}
| os_grid_reference        = TQ533240
| coordinates              = {{coord|51.00|0.18|display=inline,title}}
| post_town                = UCKFIELD
| postcode_area            = TN
| postcode_district        = TN22
| dial_code                = 01825
| website                  = https://www.hadlowdown.com
| constituency_westminster = [[Wealden (UK Parliament constituency)|Wealden]]
| london_distance          = {{convert|37|mi}} [[Boxing the compass|NNW]]
| shire_district           = [[Wealden District|Wealden]]
| shire_county             = [[East Sussex]] 
}}
'''Hadlow Down'''  is a village and [[civil parish]]<ref>[https://www.hadlowdown.com Hadlow Down community website]</ref> in the [[Wealden District|Wealden]] district of [[East Sussex]], England. It is located on the [[A272 road]] three miles (4.8&nbsp;km) north-west of [[Heathfield, East Sussex|Heathfield]]. The parish is within the [[High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty]]. It came to prominence with the Wealden iron industry in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2011 the parish had a population of 857.
The majority of the population now works outside the parish, but it still has a strong community atmosphere centred on the New Inn pub, St. Mark's school and St. Mark's church.

The parish church, [[St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down|St. Mark's]], was first built and consecrated in 1836 and rebuilt just before [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://theweald.org/P2.asp?PId=P81.4.3.191 |title=St Marks church history |access-date=12 April 2008 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719033623/http://theweald.org/P2.asp?PId=P81.4.3.191 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120718083547/http://www.acny.org.uk/venue.php?V=4941 St Marks church today]</ref> [[Edmond William Costello]] (1873–1949), holder of the [[Victoria Cross]], is buried in the churchyard, and [[Diana Rowden]] (1915–44), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, lived at Hadlow Down before [[World War II]].  A former [[Calvinistic]] chapel, [[Providence Chapel, Hadlow Down|Providence Chapel]], stands on Main Road; it was built in 1849 and converted into a house in 1996.<ref name="Elleray">{{cite book|last=Elleray|first=D. Robert|title=Sussex Places of Worship|year=2004|publisher=Optimus Books|location=Worthing|isbn=0-9533132-7-1|page=26}}</ref>

The village school is St Mark's CE Primary School.<ref>[http://www.st-marks.e-sussex.sch.uk/ St Marks CE Primary School]</ref> The village pub is the New Inn, which is a historic Grade II [[listed building]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url=http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/historic-pub-interior-entry.asp?pubid=154 | title=Britain's Historic Pub Interiors - Pub Heritage }}</ref>

==History==
Until the burgeoning of the Wealden Iron Industry in the 16th. century Hadlow Down was a rural farming community with the small population living either side of the main road that runs through it, it was relatively quiet and secluded.  The Wealden cannon making industry started at a furnace on the stream at Hoggets Farm situated to the north of the centre of the village.  It was here in 1543 that the first cannon in East Sussex was cast by Iron Master Rolf Hogget (Hugget) and is commemorated in a small rhyme:

'Master Hugget and his man John,
They did cast the first cannon.'

The 'John' referred to is believed to be a French cannon maker by the name of Baude whose family is buried at Wartling on the Pevensey Marshes.  It is probable that much of the charcoal needed to fire the furnace would have come from charcoal burners living in the area to the south of Hugget's farm and as far as Blackboys.

==Clubs & Societies==
The Horticultural Society is well supported as is the unique Variety Club.
There is also a thriving Short Mat Bowls Club and Book Club

==Leisure==
Wilderness Wood is a 62-acre (24.6&nbsp;ha) of woodland, located near the centre of the village,.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wildernesswood.co.uk/ |title=Home |website=wildernesswood.co.uk}}</ref>

Tinkers Park<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tinkerspark.com/ |title=Home |website=tinkerspark.com}}</ref> is the home of the Claude Jessett collection of traction engines, steam rollers & fair organs is situated at the eastern end of the village. Hadlow Down is well known for its association with steam engines similar to those being used in the local rural farming industries many years ago. Claude bought his first steam engine 'The Tinker' in 1942 and he used it on his farm at Tinkers Park. By the 1950s Claude and his wife Joyce had become interested in the embryonic steam rally scene and, by the early 60's, their collection of steam engines had grown and they were branching out into collecting fairground organs, farming equipment and narrow gauge railways. The first annual Tinkers Park steam engine rallies was held in 1966 in aid of Cancer Research.
The [[Great Bush Railway]] is also situated inside Tinkers Park.

The Playing Field is a Community Area with a children's playground.  An annual 'Summer Fayre, and late autumn 'Bonfire Night' is also held in the Playing Field.

Hadlow Down Cricket Club merged in 2007 with a Brighton-based club, Moulsecoomb Wanderers, to form Hadlow Down and Moulsecoomb Wanderers Cricket Club, or HDMWCC. The club as HDMWCC play friendly cricket matches only on the Hadlow Down Playing Field.

==Landmarks==
Two [[Sites of Special Scientific Interest]] are located within the parish. [[Hastingford Cutting]] is of geological interest, the cutting exposing a sequence of rocks indicating a lake/lagoon shoreface once existed at the site and the saint marks school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1005977 |title=Natural England – SSSI (Hastingford Cutting)|access-date=5 October 2008|publisher=English Nature}}</ref> [[Stockland Farm Meadows]] is a site of biological importance, consisting of two meadows, the grassland providing habitat for a variety of flora and fauna.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1006353 |title=Natural England – SSSI (Stockland Farm Meadows)|access-date=5 October 2008|publisher=English Nature}}</ref>

== New Inn pub ==
The village pub, the New Inn, has an historic pub interior of "national importance" Listed Status: Grade II.<ref name=":0" />  This red-brick hotel-cum-pub built in 1885 for the South Down & East Grinstead Brewery retains its plan-form and fittings virtually intact at present. The central entrance has 'Hotel Entrance' etched glass in the doors and to the right are a pair of doors leading to the public bar with one remaining 'Public Bar' etched panel. To be noted is the ceramic button with the figure '1' above the inside of the front doors – a requirement of licensing magistrates. The pub part is small with a long public bar fronting the main street (there was probably a screen dividing it originally) and one small room behind. 
The spartan public bar fittings are much as they were in Victorian times with a wood-block floor, a long Victorian counter with the front painted cream, bar back fitting with three large cash drawers (note two slots for notes) and four ceramic spirit barrels (note ‘I Whisky’ from the days before the fad of inserting an ‘e’ to distinguish the Irish from the Scottish variety). There are two sections of wall bench seating attached to matchboard dado panelling and a small early 20th century tiled fireplace with decoration on the wood surround and with a log fire. To be noted is the hatch on the left of the servery for customers of the hotel and waiters who would have served the former restaurant. At the rear right is the snug, a small room which now has a carpet and is home to a bar billiards table, The matchboard dado panels have been painted white and service is via the original split doors with a hatch/shelf to the back of the bar. On the front left side of the building are twin currently out of use doors with ‘Hotel Entrance’ etched panels which lead into a corridor and off to the left is the former dining room with further matchboard panelling and an ornate cast-iron fireplace. The pub still retains its outside gents’ and ladies’.

==Parish council==
{{Infobox legislature
|name               = Hadlow Down Parish Council
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|house_type         = [[Parish councils in England|Parish council]]
|body               = 
|leader1_type       = [[Chairwoman]]
|leader1            = [[Councillor]] Sandra Woods
|party1             = 
|leader2_type       = [[Vice Chairman]]
|leader2            = [[Councillor]] Graham Terry
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|members            = 7
|political_groups1  = <br/> {{color box|{{party color|Independent}}}} [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|last_election1     = 7 May 2015
|next_election1     = May/June 2019
|session_room       = 
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|meeting_place      = Hadlow Down Village Hall, Hall Ln, Hadlow Down, Uckfield TN22 4HG.
|website            = {{Official website|https://www.hadlowdown.com/}}
|footnotes          =
}}

The council appoints one councillor who is then known as the ''Chairman or Chairwoman''. The current Chairperson is Councillor Sandra Richards.<ref name="hadlowdown">{{cite web|url=https://www.hadlowdown.com/Default.aspx?tabid=225|title=Parish Council|publisher=hadlowdown.com|accessdate=2016-03-19|archive-date=2016-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527052514/http://hadlowdown.com/Default.aspx?tabid=225|url-status=dead}}</ref> All seven seats of Hadlow Down Parish Council are currently held by [[independent candidates]].

Hadlow Down Parish Council comprises a single ward - this ward is represented by several parish councillors.<ref name="ordnancesurvey">{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/|title=Election Maps|publisher=ordnancesurvey.co.uk|accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref>

Clockwise, from the north, it borders the communities of [[Crowborough]], [[Five Ashes]], [[Heathfield, East Sussex|Heathfield]], [[Buxted]] & [[Uckfield]].

===Current composition===
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" align="center" valign="top" | Group affiliation
! valign="top"| Members<br />
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Independent (politician)}}"| &nbsp;
| [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] <br />
| 7
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" | &nbsp;Total<br />
! 7
|}

===Election history===
Hadlow Down Parish Council is made up of up to 7 councillors elected from a single ward. The last elections were in 2015, and resulted in the election of 7 Independent councillors.<ref name="wealden">{{cite web|url=http://www.wealden.gov.uk/Electionsparishcouncilresults.aspx?ParishID=10|title=Elections - Parish Council Results - Councillors Committees - Wealden District Council|publisher=wealden.gov.uk|accessdate=2016-03-19|archive-date=2016-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507190049/http://www.wealden.gov.uk/Electionsparishcouncilresults.aspx?ParishID=10|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====2015 election====
The 2015 Hadlow Down Parish Council elections were held alongside the elections for [[Wealden District Council]] & the [[Wealden (UK Parliament constituency)|Wealden Parliamentary constituency]] on 7 May 2015. All 7 seats were up for election.<ref name="uckfieldfm">{{cite web|url=http://news.uckfieldfm.co.uk/2015/general-election-2015-results/|title=Election 2015 Results – District and Town Council results {{pipe}} Uckfield FM News|publisher=news.uckfieldfm.co.uk|accessdate=2016-03-19}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Ward
!colspan=2 | Party
! Town councillors elected 2015
|-
|rowspan="7" |Hadlow Down Civil Parish
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Clare Emsden
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Nathan James
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Michael Lunn
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Julian Michaelson-Yeates
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Sandra Richards
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Graham Terry
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Damon Wellman
|-
|}

====2011 election====
In the 2011 Hadlow Down Parish Council elections only 7 of the 5 seats were contested, these seats were all won by independent candidates.<ref name="wealden2">{{cite web|title=Wealden election results|url=http://www.wealden.gov.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=7548&sID=5486|publisher=wealden.gov.uk|accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Ward
!colspan=2 | Party
! Town councillors elected 2015
|-
|rowspan="5" |Hadlow Down Civil Parish
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Rona Hellewell 
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Michael Lunn
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Sandra Richards
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Graham Terry
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|David Keith Walker
|-
|}

====2007 election====
In the 2007 Hadlow Down Parish Council elections an uncontested election occurred in which all 7 seats were filled by independents.<ref name="wealden3">{{cite web|title=Wealden election results|url=http://www.wealden.gov.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=3697&sID=5486|publisher=wealden.gov.uk|accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Ward
!colspan=2 | Party
! Town councillors elected 2015
|-
|rowspan="7" |Hadlow Down Civil Parish
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Jo Dummer
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Harry James
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Paul James
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Vicky Richards
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Graham Terry
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|David Walker
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Marion Wilson
|-
|}

====2003 election====
In the 2003 Hadlow Down Parish Council elections an uncontested election occurred in which all 7 seats were filled by independents.<ref name="wealden4">{{cite web|title=Wealden election results|url=http://www.wealden.gov.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=3696&sID=5486|publisher=wealden.gov.uk|accessdate=2016-03-19}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Ward
!colspan=2 | Party
! Town councillors elected 2015
|-
|rowspan="7" |Hadlow Down Civil Parish
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|James Bannon
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Nigel Davies
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Joanne Dummer
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Harry James
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Paul James
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|Scylla Richards
|-
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|David Walker
|-
|}

==References==
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{{Wealden}}

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[[Category:Villages in East Sussex]]
[[Category:Civil parishes in East Sussex]]
[[Category:Wealden District]]