Ridgewood, East Sussex
Ridgewood is a suburb of Uckfield in South East England. Ridgewood is a village on the south of the Town of Uckfield in the South East of England. It is inland between the seaside towns of Eastbourne (20 miles) and Brighton (17 miles) and approximately 6 miles from the Ashdown Forest. The village which has the Uckfield Millennium Green; an area of 22 acres of countryside with an all-weather tree-lined path. The area used to provide the clay for the adjacent Sussex Pottery works, owned by Benjamin Wares which operated until 1970 producing bricks, tiles and other terracotta products. The history of the brickworks is commemorated in the names of the nearby Wares Road and The Potteries. Walking around the Uckfield Millennium Green a deep quarry can still be seen where clay was dug in the 20th century and brought by narrow gauge train up to the brickworks in what is now the Ridgewood Factory Estate. In 2016, the population was 3680 making up approximately 24% of the Uckfield population of 15157. Ridgewood is not a parish as it has no church but is a voting ward. Uckfield