Winchelsea
Winchelsea is a town in the non-metropolitan region of East Sussex, within the historical area of Sussex, England, located in between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, roughly 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) southern west of Rye and also 7 miles (11 kilometres) north eastern of Hastings. The town depends on the site of a medieval community, established in 1288, to change an earlier town of the same name, in some cases called Old Winchelsea, which was shed to coastal erosion. The town becomes part of the civil parish of Icklesham. It is claimed by some locals that the community is in reality the smallest community in Britain, as there is a mayor and corporation in Winchelsea, but that insurance claim is contested by areas such as Fordwich. The mayor of Winchelsea is picked yearly from amongst the members of the firm, that are called freemen, as opposed to being elected by public vote. New freemen are themselves chosen by existing members of the corporation. Thus, in its present type, the firm is efficiently a relic of Winchelsea's days as a 'rotten borough' (when Winchelsea chose 2 MPs however the number of voters was limited to about a loads, often less). The firm shed its staying civil and judicial powers in 1886 but was preserved as a charity by an Act of Parliament to maintain the subscription of the Cinque Port Confederation. The mayor and also firm in Winchelsea currently have a largely ritualistic function, together with responsibility for the ongoing care and maintenance of the main noted old monoliths in the town and also the Winchelsea museum. Winchelsea comprises neither a local government area, civil parish neither charter trustees area.