Catsfield

Infobox UK place
official_name=Catsfield
country=England
region=South East England
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static_image_caption=
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 = 12.2
population=805 (2007)
population_density= Pop density mi2 to km2|177|precision=0|abbr=yes
os_grid_reference=TQ725136
latitude=50.90
longitude=0.45
post_town=BATTLE
postcode_area=TN
postcode_district=TN33
dial_code=01424
constituency_westminster=Bexhill and Battle
london_distance=convert|49|mi NNW
shire_district=Rother
shire_county=East Sussex

Catsfield is a village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England. It is located convert|6|mi north of Bexhill. The village once consisted of two manors: Catsfield and Catsfield Levett. Thomas Lyvet (Levett) held the lordship of the manor of Catsfield in 1445 but forfeited it, along with the lordship of Firle, for his debts. But the manor of Catsfield Levett remained in the Levett family for centuries, and in the seventeenth century a Levett heiress carried it into the Eversfield family. (Richard Lyvet of Firle was lord of the manor of Catsfield in 1431.) With a fortune built on ancestral landholdings and later on iron making, the Levetts held land across Sussex.

The parish church is dedicated to St Laurence [ [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/EastSussex/Catsfield/CatsfieldStLaurence2004.htm Photos of the church] ]

Landmarks

The Site of Special Scientific Interest Ashburnham Park is partly within the parish. [cite web|url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1001964 |title=Natural England - SSSI|accessdate=2008-10-03|publisher=English Nature]

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