Glynde

The historic village of Glynde is set in the shadow of the imposing Mount Caburn in the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It lies some four miles east of the town of Lewes and close to the existing A27, yet remains quiet and has the feel of an isolated estate village. Glynde Place is a Grade 1-listed Elizabethan Manor; there are many smaller Grade II-listed properties along the narrow road through the village.

The important spaces within the village are the areas of open fields that are to the rear of the properties. The dwellings hug the road and the fields give Glynde the sense of containment and isolation. The raised grassed area bounded by a low flint wall on the eastern side of The Street is considered to be an important space within the village. It creates a separation between the smaller buildings in the lower part of the village, such as Rose Cottage and the Old School and the impressive collection of buildings at the north eastern tip, Glynde Place, the Church and Trevor House.

Glynde sits in a landscape rich in archaeological remains. A number of Roman finds have been made within the Conservation area itself, whilst immediately adjacent lies an Iron Age settlement and an Anglo Saxon cemetery - Glynde comes from 'glind', the Saxon word for enclosure. Although most of the present buildings are post medieval in date, there is evidence to suggest that the remains of earlier medieval buildings may survive beneath the present village and behind some of the more recent facades.

The many metres of flint walls in Glynde contribute to the overall character of the village and also work as a linking element throughout, drawing together the imposing northern section around Glynde Place to the modest terraced properties associated with the quarry to the south.

Highways England's corridors for the new road all lie between the railway and the 'old' A27.