Village Leaf

Rushlake Green

There can be few more perfect places to live in and work than Rushlake Green. Set in the most fabulously beautiful countryside on the edge of the Weald, our village is a short drive from Brighton and the beaches along the South East coast and yet also just over an hour by train from all that London has to offer. But surely what most marks out Rushlake Green from many other small villages, is its unmistakable sense of community and friendliness.

Perhaps in part because it has its Village Green, its Local Shop and its Pub right at its heart, Rushlake Green seems to inspire a real sense of belonging and involvement. This sense of being part of Rushlake Green extends to people who live within the village itself and throughout a wider area around the parish of Rushlake Green and Warbleton, many of whom have been connected with the locality for generations.

Village life in Rushlake Green is incredibly active and diverse. This ranges from the hugely popular annual Flower Show run by the Warbleton Horticultural and Poultry Society to a range of other societies and interest groups such as the Village Players, the History Group, the Warbleton Brass band, the WI, the many local musicians, artists and designers; and a whole host of events in the Dunn Village Hall and other local venues.

About this website

‘Rushlakegreenvillage.co.uk’ is intended as a place to share information and ideas that relate to our rich and varied village life and some of the issues we face as a local community in Rushlake Green and Warbleton. In essence it’s an online meeting-place for local individuals or groups to share activities, news and plans; make new contacts and encourage involvement. As new ideas are offered, the site can continue to evolve. And although more and more people are getting online every day, the most topical material will always be available in a printed version of the Village Leaf newsletter.

Latest Village Leaf

To look at current matters relating to village life, just click the most up to date ‘Village Leaf’ link on the right hand side of this page. If you have suggestions for topical information or ideas that could be included in a future next edition of Village Leaf, please email: rushlakegreenvillage@googlemail.com with ‘Village Leaf content ideas’ in the subject box.

Developing content of this website

This website is designed to continue to grow and evolve in response to people’s ideas and contributions. Content sections, as they develop, can be added to the left hand menu. If you are interested in contributing a page of content for a particular activity or have an idea about something that would make a good content page on this website, please email: rushlakegreenvillage@googlemail.com with ‘Website content ideas’ in the subject box.

Simple means sustainable

When we look at other similar websites, we see that one of the biggest pitfalls is keeping things up to date. Many sites start off with lots of well intentioned ideas, and many whizzy digital solutions, but end up failing because no one is able to maintain that level of activity day in day out. We therefore have, from the start, set modest and we hope achievable aims for this website. We avoid within the main content pages anything that will date quickly and we try only to update things when basic stuff like contact names and details change. We only add new content pages when there is someone with an interest in that particular subject or local group ready to get involved. More topical information and material is available within the ‘Village Leaf’ issues, and via links to other related websites, YouTube pages and the like. And we try to keep the website design simple, clearly signposted and easy to access without the need for the fastest broadband connection.