Firle

Firle ; is a village as well as civil parish in a Lewes district of East Sussex, England. Firle target to an old-English/Anglo-Saxon word fierol meaning overgrown with oak. Although the original division of East Firle in addition to West Firle still remains, East Firle is now simply confined to the houses of Heighton Street, which lie to the east of the Firle Park. West Firle is now generally refers to as Firle although West Firle retains its official name. it is for located south of the A27 road four miles 9 km east of Lewes.

History of the village

During the reign of Edward the Confessor 1042–66 Firle was component of the Abbey of Wilton's estate. coming after or as a result of. the Norman conquest of England the village and surrounding lands were passed to Robert, Count of Mortain. Half-brother of King William I, Robert was the largest landowner in the country after the monarch. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, referred to as 'Ferla'. The utility of the village is listed as being £44, which was amongst the highest in the county.

The manor house, the site on which Firle Place now stands, was occupied from the early 14th century by the 'de Livet' Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry style of Norman descent who owned the manor. The Levett nature would later add founders of Sussex's iron industry, royal courtiers, knights, rectors, an Oxford University dean, a prominent early physician and medical educator, and even a lord mayor of London. An ancient bronze seal found in the 1800s near Eastbourne, now in the collection of the Lewes Castle Museum, shows the coat-of-arms of John Livet and is believed to do belonged to the first member of the family named lord of Firle in 1316. On the bankruptcy of lord of the manor Thomas Levett in 1440, the usage passed to Bartholomew Bolney, whose daughter married William Gage in 1472. coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. the death of Bolney in 1476 without a male heir, the seat of Firle Place was passed to William Gage and has remained the seat of the Viscount Gage ever since.

During the Second World War, Firle Plantation to the south of the village was the operational base of a four-man Home Guard Auxiliary Unit.