Streat

Streat
Streat Place
Streat Hill in the National Park
Streat  Streat shown within East Sussex
Area	5.2 km^2 (2.0 sq mi) [1]
Population	158 (Parish-2011)[2]
– density	90/sq mi (35/km^2)
OS grid reference	TQ351151
– London	40 miles (64 km) N
Civil parish	Streat
District	Lewes
Shire county	East Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HASSOCKS
Postcode district	BN6
Police	Sussex
Fire	East Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Lewes
List of places UK England East Sussex

Coordinates: 50°55′N 0°05′W / 50.92°N 0.08°W

Streat is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is located 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Burgess Hill and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Lewes, longer by road, centred on remnant foothills just north of the South Downs National Park and reaching up to the South Downs.

The 11th-century parish church has no dedication;^[3] the ecclesiastical parish is joined with Westmeston.

Etymology

Saxon place names containing "Street", "Streat" or "Stret" usually indicate a Roman road, and this is the case here, as Streat is built on the Sussex Greensand Way, and there is a north-south Roman or Romanised Celtic road known as the Middleton Track just over the west parish boundary border at Hayleigh Farm sweeping past Grade II listed Middleton Manor ^[4] which ascends the South Downs escarpment passing above the Victoria Jubilee Middleton Plantation.^[5]

Landmark - Foothills

Clayton to Offham Escarpment is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which stretches from Hassocks in the west and passes through many parishes including Streat, to Lewes in the east. The site is of biological importance due to its rare chalk grassland habitat along with its woodland and scrub.^[6]

Streat Parish Church

Old Rectory

There is an Old Rectory, a listed building, which may indicate the existence of chancel repair liability ^[7] to any lay improprietors of land which was once belonged to the church.

Streat Place

Streat Place is a manor house built in the early 17th century by Walter Dobell who died in 1625. The building has an E shaped plan with central porch and projecting wings.^[8] Its national listing gives it as Grade II* and reveals its architectural merit as including its entire facing of knapped flints with long and short ashlar quoins to each window bay.^[9]

Streat Hill

The long north-south parish reaches its highest point in its southern quarter, here Streat Hill rises to 224m above sea level; here there are two earthworks or tumuli. These are two bowl barrows which are termed by archaeologists the Western Brow round barrow cemetery.^[10]

References

1. "East Sussex in Figures". East Sussex County Council. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
3. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1239635)". National Heritage List for England. Architectural details
4. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1222783)". National Heritage List for England. Middleton Manor
5. Helen Livingston, In the Footsteps of Caesar: Walking Roman Roads in Britain 1995 BCA pp30-32
6. "Natural England - SSSI (Clayton to Offham Escarpment)". English Nature. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
7. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1239655)". National Heritage List for England. The Old Rectory
8. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56931 Victoria County History A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7
9. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1239638)". National Heritage List for England. Streat Place
10. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1014625)". National Heritage List for England.bowl barrowHistoric England. "Details from listed building database (1014641)". National Heritage List for England. Scheduled Ancient Monuments - bowl barrow

External links

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