William Levett of Buxted, a vicar who was a prime mover behind the iron industry in the Weald, had ties to the Maresfield area during his tenure as an ironmaster and supplier of armaments to Henry VIII.

[4] Eventually the vicar's former servant Ralph Hogge, who had become a major ironmaster after Levett's death, operated four furnaces and one or more forges within a couple of miles of Maresfield Church.

Fairwarp and Nutley developed as offshoots from it.https://sussexparishchurches.org/church/maresfield-st-bartholomew/ There was a Roman settlement, including a bloomery, and later a Norman village grew up around the church.

[5] During the Second World War another large army camp was established to the west of the village, the land on which it was built now redeveloped for housing and the Ashdown Business Park There has been considerable recent development.

[6] Maresfield is on the southern edge of Ashdown Forest which was a deer hunting reserve from the time of King Edward II of England.

This woodland is of biological interest, with uncommon mosses and ferns growing alongside the stream which flows through the site.

Maresfield is also home to Underhill Fishing Lake, managed by the Crowborough and District Anglers Association.

At the centre of the village is the Grade II* listed 17th century Chequers Inn[19] and Maresfield church founded in approx 1100.