Forest Row
Forest Row is a village as well as relatively big civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The town is located 3 miles (5 km) south-east of East Grinstead. An electoral ward in the very same name exists. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 5,278. The village attracts its name from its proximity to the Ashdown Forest, an imperial hunting park first enclosed in the 13th century. From its origins as a little hamlet, Forest Row has expanded, first with the establishment of a turnpike road in the 18th century; and also later on with the opening of the train 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 program of closures advanced by East Grinstead homeowner as well as British Railways Board Chairman Richard Beeching.