Rodmell

50.8354870.01296Koordinaten: 50 ° 50 'N, 0 ° 1' O

Rodmell is a place and a civil parish in East Sussex, England. The place is located less than 5 km south of Lewes on the west bank of the River Ouse in the South Downs.

Harold II was the Lord of the Manor of Rodmell before the Norman Conquest. When creating the Doomsday Books by William de Warenne the Manor was transferred to the Priory of Lewes.

The parish church of St Peter the oldest parts date from the 12th century, is to stand on the site of an even older church. The present church was restored in 1858.

The former farmhouse Monk 's House in Rodmell belonged from 1920, the writer Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf. The Woolf lived since 1940 permanently in the Monk 's House. Virginia Woolf committed suicide on March 21, 1941 in the nearby River Ouse suicide; her husband lived until his death in 1969 in Rodmell.

The winery Breaky Bottom, who found international recognition, is located in the civil parish.