Boreham Street

Boreham Street is a very pretty village made up of listed buildings with lovely views over the Pevensey Levels towards Norman’s Bay on one side and open farmland on the other. Its church dates back to the 13th Century and is believed to have been built on the ground that once housed a chapel which was given to the College of Hastings by the Count of Eu. The church’s graveyard possesses two very rare iron tombstone heads which were created by Jonathan Harmer from Heathfield. During WWII, there were a great many defence pill boxes built throughout the village to guard against invasion through Pevensey Marshes. A command post was also built to cover the Marshes and the Ashbourne Valley.

The Scofle’s Tea Rooms reside in a particularly historic building from 1392. It was originally designed as a single floor, three bay Wealden Hall House. Its second floor was built in the 17th century and one of its bedrooms has a coffin drop, designed for lowering large objects through the window. Beneath the building resides a Norman style vault with a bricked up tunnel believed to come out in Herstmonceux Castle. The tea rooms were named Scofle’s after a French family who lived their during the 16th century. The current owners plan to preserve and enhance the building’s historic features.