Streat
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 Streat Place |
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 Streat Hill in the National Park |
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 Streat
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| Streat shown within East Sussex | |
| Area | 5.2 km2 (2.0 sq mi) |
| Population | 158 (Parish-2011) |
| • Density | 90/sq mi (35/km2) |
| OS grid reference | TQ351151 |
| • London | 40 miles (64 km) N |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HASSOCKS |
| Postcode district | BN6 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | East Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | |
Streat is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is located 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Burgess Hill and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Lewes, longer by road, centred on remnant foothills just north of the South Downs National Park and reaching up to the South Downs.
The 11th-century parish church has no dedication; the ecclesiastical parish is joined with Westmeston.
Anglo-Saxon place names containing "Street", "Streat" or "Stret" usually indicate a Roman road, and this is the case here, as Streat is built on the Sussex Greensand Way, and there is a north-south Roman or Romanised Celtic road known as the Middleton Track just over the west parish boundary border at Hayleigh Farm sweeping past Grade II listed Middleton Manor which ascends the South Downs escarpment passing above the Victoria Jubilee Middleton Plantation.
Clayton to Offham Escarpment is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which stretches from Hassocks in the west and passes through many parishes including Streat, to Lewes in the east. The site is of biological importance due to its rare chalk grassland habitat along with its woodland and scrub.
There is an Old Rectory, a listed building, which may indicate the existence of chancel repair liability to any lay improprietors of land which was once belonged to the church.
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