Glynde is a village and shares a civil parish with Beddingham in the Lewes District of East Sussex, United Kingdom.

[3] The estate at Glynde has belonged to four interlinked families: the Waleys ("from Wales"), Morleys, Trevors, and Brands.

By the late 12th century, Richard Waleys held four knight fees of the Archbishop, including Glynde.

[4] The Waleys added further estates near Mayfield (Hawkesden and Bainden), which in the 16th century became the centre of the Wealden ironmaking industry and a major source of wealth.

On the walls of knapped flint he erected two wyverns sculpted by John Cheere,[5] the heraldic dragons of the Trevors.

In addition, he created a new front hall, embellished the gallery panelling, installed a marble fireplace, and added a set of bronzes.

[4] The present parish church of St Mary the Virgin, built by Richard Trevor to a design by Sir Thomas Robinson, was dedicated in 1765.

[4] The village was the home of Field Marshal Garnet, Viscount Wolesley (1833–1913) Commander-in-Chief of the British Army from the 1890s until his death in 1913.

In 1817, with its act due to expire in 1821 and the works incomplete, a new turnpike was sponsored to cut across the marshes of Beddingham.

[10] Chalk pits are long standing features in the area, used for liming the fields, mending the roads, and occasionally making mortar for building.

[11] Then in 1846 the railway came and Henry Otway Trevor immediately leased all the chalk pits in Glynde and Beddingham to a Lewes limeburning partnership.

The procedure was to excavate the chalk, turn it into lime in large kilns, and transport it away by rail to be used as cement.

[11] A clay pit was opened in 1885 north of Glynde Reach, to the east of Decoy Wood.

The pit was to supply Gault clay to the new Sussex Portland Cement works at South Heighton.

Many tourists are people walking on the South Downs; Glynde sits on the flank of Mount Caburn.