Fletching
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Fletching is in East Sussex near Piltdown and Newick. Fletching was an Anglo Saxon settlement which was founded about a century after Roman Britain. It was a major producer of bows and arrows used in the battle of Agincourt in 1415.
In 1264 Simon de Montfort stopped at Fletching to prepare for the Battle of Lewes. His soldiers were blessed by the Bishop of Worcester in the parish church of St Andrew & St Mary the Virgin. They fletched their arrows here on the eve of the Battle, in which Simon defeated King Henry III's troops.
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- The Griffin Inn - 16th Century Inn, with restaurant, pub and lodgings
- Fletching Parish Church - Church of St Andrew and St Mary the Virgin
