Forest Row is a village and also relatively large civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The town lies 3 miles (5 kilometres) south-east of East Grinstead. A selecting ward in the exact same name exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 5,278. The village attracts its name from its closeness to the Ashdown Forest, an imperial searching park very first confined in the 13th century. From its origins as a small hamlet, Forest Row has expanded, initially with the establishment of a turnpike road in the 18th century; as well as later with the opening of the railway between East Grinstead and also Tunbridge Wells in 1866; the line, which included an intermediate station at Forest Row, closed in 1967 as a result of the program of closures advanced by East Grinstead local and British Railways Board Chairman Richard Beeching.