| 词条 | Rape of Hastings |
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|Name= Rape of Hastings |Image= Hastings Castle, once the administrative centre of the Rape |caption= |native_name = |HQ= Hastings |Government= |Origin= |Status= Rape (county subdivision) |Start= By 11th century |End= |Code= |CodeName= |Replace= Sussex (eastern division) |Motto= |Divisions= Hundreds |DivisionsNames= Baldstrow, Battle, Bexhill, Foxearle, Gostrow, Guestling, Hawkesborough, Henhurst, Netherfield, Ninfield, Shoyswell, Staple |Map= |Arms= Emblem of the Rape and town of Hastings |Civic= |PopulationFirst= 44,311 |PopulationFirstYear= 1821 |AreaFirst= {{convert|154069|acre|km2}} |AreaFirstYear= 1821 |DensityFirst= {{convert|0.29|PD/acre|PD/sqkm}} |DensityFirstYear= 1821 |PopulationSecond= |PopulationSecondYear= |AreaSecond= |AreaSecondYear= |DensitySecond= |DensitySecondYear= |PopulationLast= 50,239 |PopulationLastYear= 1831 |AreaLast= {{convert|154069|acre|km2}} |AreaLastYear= 1831 |DensityLast= {{convert|0.33|PD/acre|PD/sqkm}} |DensityLastYear= 1831 }} The Rape of Hastings is one of the rapes, the traditional sub-divisions unique to the historic county of Sussex in England. HistoryRapes were territorial divisions, peculiar to Sussex, that were used for administrative purpose. The Rape of Hastings was one of six such divisions.[1] Medieval sources and place name evidence suggest that there were people living in what became the Rape of Hastings by the late 8th century. The people who were known as the Haestingas were a separate group to those of the South Saxons. The Haestingas became a sub-kingdom of the Kingdom of Sussex before being annexed by the Kingdom of Wessex[2] William the Conqueror granted the rape of Hastings to his cousin, Robert, Count of Eu, shortly after the Norman Conquest.[3]LocationHastings rape is the easternmost of all the Sussex rapes and it borders the rape of Pevensey to the west. To the north and east of the rape lies the county of Kent, while to the south lies the English Channel. The rape of Hastings includes the towns of Battle, Hastings and Rye. At {{convert|197|m}} tall, Brightling Down in the High Weald is the highest point in the rape. Sub-divisionsThe rape is traditionally divided into the following hundreds:
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References1. ^{{cite encyclopedia|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|article=Rape|last=Lower|first=Anthony|url=https://archive.org/stream/encyclopaediabri22chisrich#page/900/mode/2up|page=900|year=1911|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|accessdate=8 December 2016}} 2. ^{{Cite book|last=Armstrong|first=J.R.|title=A History of Sussex|publisher=Phillimore|location=Sussex|year=1971|page=39|isbn=0-85033-185-4}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sussexcastles.com/castles/hastings-castle.html|title=Hastings Castle|accessdate=20 Mar 2012}} External links
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