Forest Row
Forest Row is a village and also fairly big civil parish in the Wealden Area of East Sussex, England. The village is located 3 miles (5 km) south-east of East Grinstead. A selecting ward in the same name exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 5,278. The town attracts its name from its closeness to the Ashdown Forest, a royal searching park first confined in the 13th century. From its origins as a tiny district, Forest Row has actually expanded, first with the establishment of a turnpike road in the 18th century; and later on with the opening of the railway in between East Grinstead as well as Tunbridge Wells in 1866; the line, that included an intermediate station at Forest Row, closed in 1967 as a result of the programme of closures put forward by East Grinstead homeowner as well as British Railways Board Chairman Richard Beeching.