Ashburnham with Penhurst – The community website for our East Sussex villages
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Ashburnham Past
Ashburnham is a scattered village, five miles west of Battle in East Sussex. The village is named from the Saxon for "The enclosure on the river Ashbourne". Roman activity has been identified at Kitchenham Farm suggesting that iron was being worked in the area at that time. Ashburnham appears in the Domesday Book as Esseborne and within the village were 3 salt houses, salt being a valuable commodity. The village is recorded as having a value of £6 before the invasion, but only £1 after, the Normans pillagin
Information about present day Ashburnham & Penhurst can be found at the parish website www.ashburnham-penhurst.net
Ashburnham with Penhurst – The community website for our East Sussex villages