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Pevensey
Pevensey is a town and also civil parish in the Wealden area of East Sussex, England. The major village lies five miles (8 km) north-east of Eastbourne, one mile (1.6 km) inland from Pevensey Bay. The settlement of Pevensey Bay creates part of the parish. It was below that William the Conqueror made the landing in his intrusion of England in 1066 after crossing the English Channel from Normandy, France. In 1207 the community was approved a royal charter by King John as well as was regulated by Pevensey Corporation. With the decrease in the town's importance by the 19th century, the Corporation was eventually liquified in 1886 and also the town shed its borough status. The records of the Corporation are kept in the East Sussex Record Office at Lewes, and also a voluntary body, the Pevensey Town Trust, was developed to manage the home which had actually formerly come from the Corporation, most notably the Old Court House. Pevensey is now a village, with a church council consisting of twelve chosen councillors. Three councillors are elected to the Wealden District Council to stand for Pevensey; the Member of Parliament is Hugh Merriman, who stands for the Bexhill as well as Battle Constituency, of which Pevensey is component. Pevensey is additionally part of the electoral ward called Pevensey and also Westham. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 9,467.