Pett

Infobox UK place
official_name=Pett
country=England
region=South East England
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area_footnotes=cite web |url=http://www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk/webview/ |title=East Sussex in Figures |accessdate=2008-04-26 |publisher=East Sussex County Council]
area_total_km2 =6.5
population=781 (Parish-2007)
population_density= Pop density mi2 to km2|311|precision=0|abbr=yes
os_grid_reference=TQ873139
latitude=50.89
longitude=0.66
post_town=HASTINGS
postcode_area=TN
postcode_district=TN35
dial_code=01424
constituency_westminster=Hastings and Rye
london_distance=convert|54|mi NW
shire_district=Rother
shire_county=East Sussex

Pett is a village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England. The village is located five miles (8 km) north-east of Hastings on the edge of Pett Level, the one-time marshes stretching along the coast of Rye Bay.

The road through the village leads down to the second village in the parish: Pett Level, the coastal part of which is known as "Cliff End". Here there is a beach and, as the name suggests, the Weald sandstone cliffs reach their easternmost point. Pett Level marks the end of both the Royal Military Canal and the western end of the 1940s sea defence wall. [ [http://pett-level.east-sussex.co.uk/ Notes on Pett Level] ] The Saxon Shore Way passes through Pett Level.

Pett parish church is dedicated to St Mary and St Peter; [ [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Pett/PettStMary&StPeter2004.htm Parish church] ] there is also a Methodist chapel, and a small Church of England church at Cliff End. [ [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Pett/PettChurchMenu.htm Churches in Pett] ]

History

The manor of Pett belonged to a succession of families, including the Halle family, the Levett family, the Fletchers and the Medleys, before eventually passing to the Earls of Liverpool. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=aaA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=ashburnham+levetts&source=web&ots=sYzLl20IUF&sig=yTHRHRVa06d3DiPsiGQmFp9jLOQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result "A Compendious History of Sussex", Mark Antony Lower, 1870] ]

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