Fletching, East Sussex
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Fletching is a village in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located to the west of Uckfield, near one of the entrances to Sheffield Park.
It has an historic church of St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin dating from the twelfth century. Simon de Montfort prayed there before the Battle of Lewes. Many of the church's gravestones have been catalogued.
The famous historian Edward Gibbon is interred within the church, having died in Fletching while staying with his great friend, the John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. It was a major producer of bows and arrows, many of which were used at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
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