Fletching lies in the Weald between the South Downs, designated a National Park in 2011, and the High Weald, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which includes the Ashdown Forest. Most of the village is in a Conservation Area.
The parish extends to approximately 10 square. miles with a population of about 1100 and is largely rural with several working farms and forestry plantations.
It includes Piltdown Golf Club, Sheffield Park House, the renowned National Trust Sheffield Park. Gardens and the heritage steam line, the Bluebell Railway.
Fletching is approximately 15 miles from the South coast, 9 miles north of Lewes, 4 miles West of Uckfield, and 8 miles East of Haywards Heath. Neighbouring parishes within the same Deanery of Uckfield include Nutley, Danehill, Maresfield, Newick, Isfield, Buxted and Chailey
The 1880 Pipe Organ
Fletching’s pipe organ by Forster & Andrews has stood in the choir of the parish church of St Andrew and St Mary the Virgin for nearly 150 years. It was a gift of the Earl of Sheffield and installed as part of the reordering of the chancel by the architect John Oldrid Scott.
It has stood the test of time well, but it now needs a thorough overhaul to ensure it can continue to support regular Sunday worship, weddings, christenings and funerals, as well as choral concerts and charity organ recitals.
