Rodmell
| Rodmell | ||||
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 St Peter's Church in Rodmell |
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| Basic data | ||||
| status | Village and Civil Parish | |||
| surface | 11.3 km² | |||
| population | 527 (as of 2011) | |||
| Ceremony county | East Sussex | |||
| District | Lewes District | |||
| Constituency | Lewes | |||
| Website: www.rodmell.net | ||||
Rodmell is a village and civil parish in East Sussex , England . The place is about 3 miles south of Lewes on the west bank of the River Ouse in the South Downs .
Harald II was the Lord of the Manor at Rodmell before the Norman conquest . During the creation of the Domesday Book , the Manor was transferred from William de Warenne to the Priory of Lewes .
The parish church of St Peter, the oldest parts of which date from the 12th century, is supposed to stand on the site of an even older church. The current church was restored in 1858.
The former farmhouse Monk's House in Rodmell belonged to the writer Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf from 1920 . The Woolfs lived permanently in Monk's House from 1940. Virginia Woolf committed suicide in the nearby River Ouse on March 21, 1941; her husband lived in Rodmell until his death in 1969.
The winery Breaky Bottom, who also garner international recognition lies in the community.
Web links
- Official website of the Rodmell Parish
- Rodmell, in: LF Salzman (ed.), A History of the County of Sussex, Vol. 7, The rapes of Lewes , pp. 69-73, 1940. Online here: British History Online
- Breaky Bottom Winery
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ N , 0 ° 1 ′ E