Playden is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England.
[4] Playden Parish Council has four councillors,[5] and meets monthly at the WI Hall in the village.
In the United Kingdom Parliament, it is part of the Hastings & Rye constituency, represented since the 2019 UK general election by Sally-Ann Hart, of the Conservative party.
The beacon was in the form of a tar filled barrel in an oak tree that was burnt down around 1930 but the stump remains.
[10] In addition, part of the Dungeness, Romney Marsh & Rye SSSI lies within Playden parish.