Ripe, East Sussex
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Ripe is a village within the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It forms part of the Chalvington with Ripe civil parish and is located eight miles (13km) east of Lewes in the valley north of the South Downs. The two villages are adjacent to one another, Ripe ecclesiastical parish being the larger of the two in area. There is no public transport to the village.
The village, in a mainly rural area, is mentioned in Domesday Book and has had a number of names, including Alchitone, Achiltone, Achintone, Echentone and Eckington. The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Before 1066 it was owned by Earl Harold, later to become King Harold (the second) who was killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Domesday Book mentions 'Rype' and 'Echentone' which were owned by Richard de Aquila. The church was taxed by Pope Nicholas IV in 1291.
The novelist Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano) died at age 48 in a boarding house in Ripe on June 27, 1957.
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