Horsted Place, now a country hotel is located in the village, together with two golf courses, including the East Sussex National.

On Levett's early death,[4] his share of the family's interests in the emerging iron industry of the Weald went to his brother, an Oxford-trained rector in Buxted.

In his will of 1533, John Levett left his iron mills and furnaces to his brother, with the provision that his children be cared for with the proceeds.

Plashett Park Wood is a site of biological importance as an area of ancient woodland.

It provides a habitat for a variety of breeding birds plus a number of rarer invertebrates and flora.