Barcombe Cross is a village in East Sussex

East Sussex

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, England

England

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. It is within the civil parish of the nearby village of Barcombe

Barcombe

Barcombe is an East Sussex village lying some 4–5 miles north of Lewes. It is also the name of one of the civil parishes in the Lewes District of East Sussex...

, from which people were evacuated to Barcombe Cross during the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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, to escape the plague

Black Death

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. The village has a small post office

Post office

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, a shop, a pub, an electrician's shop, a fancy dress shop and a shoe shop. Disused Barcombe railway station

Barcombe railway station

Barcombe was a railway station serving the village of Barcombe in East Sussex. It was part of the East Grinstead to Lewes line, more popularly known as the Bluebell Railway.The station was originally opened as "New Barcombe" to distinguish it from the nearby station of Barcombe Mills , and was...

 used to serve the village.

For more detail see the main article of Barcombe

Barcombe

Barcombe is an East Sussex village lying some 4–5 miles north of Lewes. It is also the name of one of the civil parishes in the Lewes District of East Sussex...

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