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A very attractive village with a single street lined with half timbered 16th and 17th century houses which were built when the Wealden iron industry was a thriving business.
The church is 13th century with later additions, the tower is perpendicular and has Jacobean font and pulpit.
Chiddingstone Castle is high on the main street and was rebuilt in mock Gothic and looks like an older manor house, home of the Streatfield Family.
It is open to the public most of the year at advertised times.
Along a footpath behind the street is a large sandstone rock called 'The Chidding Stone' to which, as the story goes, nagging wives used to be taken to be nagged at retributively by the assembled village.
- Type:
- Landmark