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50°50′20″N0°23′17″E / 50.839°N 0.388°E / 50.839; 0.388

Northeye is the site of an abandoned medieval village known as Hooe Level on the Pevensey Levels, west of Bexhill-on-Sea. The village is mentioned as a dependent limb of the Cinque Port of Hastings in a charter of 1229. It is thought to have been deserted around 1400 AD. The village consisted of houses and a flint built chapel, The Chapel of St James.

Before the Pevensey Marshes were silted up and reclaimed, Northeye was an island in an inlet that reached inland to Hailsham. [1]

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References

  1. Driver, Leigh (1 June 2009). The Lost Villages of England. New Holland Publishers. p. 53.