Pevensey
Pevensey is a town and also civil parish in the Wealden area of East Sussex, England. The major village is located 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Eastbourne, one mile (1.6 kilometres) inland from Pevensey Bay. The settlement of Pevensey Bay develops part of the parish. It was here that William the Conqueror made the landing in his invasion of England in 1066 after crossing the English Channel from Normandy, France. In 1207 the community was granted an imperial charter by King John and was regulated by Pevensey Corporation. With the decrease in the town's significance by the 19th century, the Corporation was eventually dissolved in 1886 as well as the town shed its district status. The documents of the Corporation are kept in the East Sussex Record Office at Lewes, and a voluntary body, the Pevensey Town Trust, was created to take care of the property which had formerly come from the Corporation, most notably the Old Court House. Pevensey is now a town, with a church council including twelve chosen councillors. Three councillors are elected to the Wealden District Council to stand for Pevensey; the Member of Parliament is Hugh Merriman, that stands for the Bexhill and Battle Constituency, of which Pevensey is part. Pevensey is likewise part of the electoral ward called Pevensey and also Westham. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 9,467.