Forest Row
Forest Row is a town and fairly huge civil parish in the Wealden Area of East Sussex, England. The town lies three miles (5 km) south-east of East Grinstead. A selecting ward in the same name exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 5,278. The village draws its name from its proximity to the Ashdown Forest, a royal searching park initial enclosed in the 13th century. From its origins as a little hamlet, Forest Row has grown, first with the establishment of a turnpike road in the 18th century; and later on with the opening of the railway in between East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells in 1866; the line, which included an intermediate station at Forest Row, closed in 1967 as a result of the programme of closures put forward by East Grinstead local and British Railways Board Chairman Richard Beeching.