About Kingston Village

Kingston village lies in the Downs to the west of Lewes. According to Dr R. Taylor's history of the village, at the time of the Norman Conquest it was owned by Queen Edith, but is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. In 1091 the de Warenne family gave an acre of land to the monks of St Pancras to build a church. Besides the church, with its Tapsell gate, Kingston has many of the traditional appurtenances of an English village: a village hall, a pub and Iford and Kingston School. However, it currently lacks a post office and a shop. It has grown considerably from the single street of cottages and houses in the 1920s to a large and thriving village. Many houses were built in the 1960s and were bought by the new University of Sussex for sale to staff.

What the Lewes District Council says about the village.

By kind permission of Martin Ternouth, illustration of the history of cartography by reference to Kingston village.