[5] The public houses are Coach and Horses (Danehill)[6] and the Red Lion at Chelwood Gate.

After travellers continued to use Danehill's roads, the village decided to improve the roads which led to wealthy families moving into the area, such as John Baker Holroyd who moved into Sheffield Park in 1769 and was later to become the First Lord Sheffield.

[11] Wealden District Council is the next tier of government, for which Danehill is part of the Danehill/Fletching/Nutley ward, which had a population of 5,346 at the 2011 census.

[13] Danehill is represented at the East Sussex County Council as part of the Buxted Maresfield Ward.

Prior to Brexit in 2020, the village was part of the South East England constituency in the European Parliament.