Pevensey
Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The primary village is located five miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Eastbourne, one mile (1.6 km) inland from Pevensey Bay. The settlement of Pevensey Bay develops part of the parish. It was below that William the Conqueror made the landing in his invasion of England in 1066 after going across the English Channel from Normandy, France. In 1207 the town was granted an imperial charter by King John and was regulated by Pevensey Corporation. With the decline in the community's value by the 19th century, the Corporation was at some point dissolved in 1886 and the community shed its borough standing. The records of the Corporation are kept in the East Sussex Record Office at Lewes, and a voluntary body, the Pevensey Town Trust, was formed to manage the residential or commercial property which had actually formerly come from the Corporation, most notably the Old Court House. Pevensey is currently a village, with a church council including twelve elected councillors. Three councillors are chosen to the Wealden Area Council to stand for Pevensey; the Member of Parliament is Hugh Merriman, who represents the Bexhill and Battle Constituency, of which Pevensey is part. Pevensey is also part of the selecting ward called Pevensey as well as Westham. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 9,467.
