Wealden

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Wealden is the largest district in East Sussex, stretching across the High Weald and the South Downs. It includes market towns such as Hailsham, Crowborough, and Uckfield, alongside historic villages and countryside. Ashdown Forest, associated with Winnie-the-Pooh, offers open heathland, while the South Downs provide rolling chalk hills. The landscape is dotted with castles, such as Herstmonceux, and historic estates, while rivers, farmland, and forests dominate much of the rural scenery.

The local authority for this district is: Wealden District Council - responsible for district-level services. Since East Sussex is a two-tier area, county-level services are handled by: East Sussex County Council.

This district page, Wealden, is a sub-page of this county page: East Sussex and this region page: South East. It zooms in to local authorities and parliamentary constituencies, and provides a list of wards in this district. We have this list page for easy browsing of all UK local authority districts: List of Local Authority Districts.

Constituencies in Wealden

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Wards in Wealden

Wealden is divided into 41 wards, listed below in alphabetical order.

  • Arlington
  • Buxted
  • Chiddingly, East Hoathly & Waldron
  • Crowborough Central
  • Crowborough Jarvis Brook
  • Crowborough North
  • Crowborough South East
  • Crowborough South West
  • Crowborough St Johns
  • Danehill & Fletching
  • Forest Row
  • Framfield & Cross-in-Hand
  • Frant & Wadhurst
  • Hadlow Down & Rotherfield
  • Hailsham Central
  • Hailsham East
  • Hailsham North
  • Hailsham North West
  • Hailsham South
  • Hailsham West
  • Hartfield
  • Heathfield North
  • Heathfield South
  • Hellingly
  • Herstmonceux & Pevensey Levels
  • Horam & Punnetts Town
  • Lower Willingdon
  • Maresfield
  • Mayfield & Five Ashes
  • Pevensey Bay
  • Polegate Central
  • Polegate North
  • Polegate South & Willingdon Watermill
  • South Downs
  • Stone Cross
  • Uckfield East
  • Uckfield New Town
  • Uckfield North
  • Uckfield Ridgewood & Little Horsted
  • Upper Willingdon
  • Withyham