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HammerwoodHammerwood is a small hamlet, four miles to the east of East Grinstead in Sussex, UK. The name Hammerwood comes from the old Sussex iron industry and relates to the numerous hammer-ponds found in the area. Streams in the locality can still run red with the colour of iron in the water. Aside from a number of houses, the most notable buildings are Hammerwood House and St Stephen's Church. The church was completed in 1880 funded by local landowner Oswald Augustus Smith and built to a design of E.P Loftus Brock. Smith also funded the rebuilding of St Peter's Church in Holtye within the same Parish. The church can be found on the main road. Inside the church, there is a pipe organ built by T.C Lewis of Brixton in 1884. Both churches are regularly used and form the Parish of Hammerwood and Holtye, which itself forms a United Benefice with St Mary Magdalene in Cowden. Hammerwood House was designed by the architect Benjamin Latrobe, also responsible for the Capitol Building in Washington. Hammerwood House is open to the public at certain times of the year.
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