FLETCHING, a parish in the hundred of RUSHMONDEN,
rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles
(X. w. by W.) from Uckfield, containing 1690 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Lewes, and diocese of Chiehester, rated in
the king's books at £3. 6. S. The Earl of Sheffield was
patron in 1786. The church is dedicated to St. An
drew and St. Mary. A National school has been established,
and a neat school-house was erected in 1824.
A fair for the sale of pedlary is held here on the Monday
preceding Whit-Sunday. The river Ouse runs through
the parish, and there are several chalybeate springs. A
Roman military way was discovered some years since
on St. John's common.