Ringmer is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Lewes. Other small settlements in the parish include Upper Wellingham, Ashton Green, Broyle Side, Little Norlington and Shortgate.Ringmer is one of the largest villages in the south of England.[citation needed] There has been human habitation since at least Roman times[citation needed]. The village church, dedicated to St Mary, was probably built in the 13th century[citation needed]. One of its rectors, named to the living in 1533, was William Levett, named in the same year as rector of Buxted, and one of the most improbable figures in English ecclesiastical history. While serving as rector, Levett took over the iron foundry business of his deceased brother John, and became the leading manufacturer of armaments in England[citation needed], as well as the first to cast iron cannons in modern blast furnaces[citation needed].Ringmer has two schools, Ringmer Primary School for ages 4–11 and Ringmer Community College for students aged 11–18. Ringmer Community College houses the local swimming pool which is run by Wave Leisure.The symbol of Ringmer is a tortoise named Timothy, after the female tortoise that the naturalist Gilbert White carried back to Selborne in Hampshire in 1780.[citation needed] White’s aunt Rebecca Snooke lived in Delves House where Timothy had the run of the courtyard garden. Timothy died in 1794, a year after Gilbert White.
Distancia a Londres
69201.792000
Densidad de población (por km²)
177.220891
Población total
4591
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