Traditional county: East Sussex · District / Borough: Wealden · Region: South East
Explore Butcher's Cross, East Sussex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Butcher's Cross map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Butcher's Cross |
| Traditional County | East Sussex |
| District / Borough | Wealden |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.008944 |
| Longitude | 0.221590 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Butcher's Cross marks a quiet convergence of lanes where the rolling topography of the High Weald begins to sharpen into steep, wooded gills. It lies 2.9 miles north-north-west of Heathfield (from Heathfield: bearing 334°T, OS grid TQ 559 256), and is situated north-east of Skippers Hill village. The sunlight here often catches the damp, dark silt of Hornslodge Gill as it carves a slow, serpentine path through the valley floor nearby. A sense of historical industry lingers in the deep, iron-rich clays that once supported the furnaces of the Wealden ironworks. Beyond the immediate road junctions, the horizon is dominated by the silhouette of Argos Hill Windmill, a sentinel watching over the shifting Atlantic weather patterns that brush against the ridge. Butcher's Cross remains a place of transition, where the dense hedgerows and ancient field boundaries dictate the pace of movement. Every season brings a different quality of light to the damp margins of King's Marsh, turning the wetland into a reflective mirror for the pale, shifting skies of East Sussex. This landscape holds the weight of centuries in its quiet, unremarkable folds, demanding a slower, more deliberate observation from those who pass through.
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Explore Butcher's Cross, East Sussex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.008944, 0.221590. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |