Pevensey
Pevensey is a village as well as civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. The primary town is located 5 miles (8 kilometres) north-east of Eastbourne, one mile (1.6 kilometres) 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 invasion of England in 1066 after crossing the English Channel from Normandy, France. In 1207 the town was given an imperial charter by King John and was regulated by Pevensey Corporation. With the decrease in the community's importance by the 19th century, the Corporation was eventually dissolved in 1886 and the town shed its borough standing. The documents of the Corporation are held in the East Sussex Record Office at Lewes, and a voluntary body, the Pevensey Town Trust, was developed to take care of the residential property which had formerly belonged to the Corporation, most especially the Old Court House. Pevensey is currently a town, with a church council including twelve elected councillors. 3 councillors are elected to the Wealden Area Council to stand for Pevensey; the Member of Parliament is Hugh Merriman, that stands for the Bexhill and also Battle Constituency, of which Pevensey is part. Pevensey is additionally part of the electoral ward called Pevensey and Westham. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 9,467.