Winchelsea
Winchelsea is a village in the non-metropolitan area of East Sussex, within the historic region of Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and also the Romney Marsh, around 2 miles (3.2 km) southern west of Rye and also 7 miles (11 km) north eastern of Hastings. The town depends on the site of a medieval town, established in 1288, to replace an earlier community of the same name, in some cases known as Old Winchelsea, which was lost to coastal disintegration. The town becomes part of the civil parish of Icklesham. It is declared by some citizens that the town remains in fact the smallest town in Britain, as there is a mayor and firm in Winchelsea, but that case is contested by locations such as Fordwich. The mayor of Winchelsea is selected each year from amongst the participants of the firm, that are known as freemen, instead of being chosen by public vote. New freemen are themselves chosen by existing participants of the company. Hence, in its existing type, the corporation is efficiently an antique of Winchelsea's days as a 'rotten borough' (when Winchelsea elected 2 MPs however the variety of voters was limited to about a dozen, occasionally fewer). The firm shed its staying civil and also judicial powers in 1886 yet was maintained as a charity by an Act of Parliament to keep the membership of the Cinque Port Confederation. The mayor as well as company in Winchelsea now have a mainly ceremonial duty, together with obligation for the ongoing care as well as upkeep of the main detailed old monoliths in the town and the Winchelsea museum. Winchelsea constitutes neither a city government area, civil parish neither charter trustees area.
