Little is known of the town of Hailsham before the 1086 Doomsday Book, but evidence of a Roman road from Leap Cross across the Common, indicates some occupation prior to this.

REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY: Much of the foregoing is to be found in the following reference points or publications:

Hailsham And Its Environs (Charles Robertson: 1982) Picture Postcards (Hailsham Historical Society: 1984) Hailsham: Past Glimpses (Hailsham Historical Society) Given Enough Roap To Haegels Ham (Eddy Powell: 1997) Hailsham Collections/Recollections (Eddy Powell: 2000)

Men of Hailsham may have taken part in the important battle of Lewes in 1264 when Simon de Montfort's victory resulted in the establishment of the first principles of parliamentary representation. During the seventeenth-century civil war between Charles I and Parliament, Hailsham and this part of Sussex declared against the royalist cause.

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