Rodmell is a small village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.

[4] Before the time of the Norman conquest the manor of Rodmell was held by King Harold II.

[6] More recently, Monk's House was the home of the author Virginia Woolf for twenty-one years until her suicide in 1941.

From southeast to the northwest, it runs from Saltdean over the South Downs to the Lewes Brooks and as far as the River Ouse.

[8] Unusually, the long and convoluted dry valley behind the scarp does not drain southwards to the sea, but easterly, then northerly to the Brooks and the Ouse.

Michael Light, a worker at South Farm, has written a book/pamphlet with a number of editions recording the birds he has seen in the parish.

Often such steep slopes have been saved from intensive farming and the agrochemicals that implies, but unfortunately Mill Hill was not spared.

At the southern end the Northease White Way cuts a substantial bostal and there are two chalk pits by its side.

[8] To the east of farm is Access Land which continues north into the Iford parish and Whiteway Bottom.

At the summit you have views of the sea, distant glimpses of the Weald and white cliffs and what strikes many walkers is the silence because, despite its height, the sound of roads do not reach here.

On its steep northern slope (TQ 406 047) the chalk grassland is well preserved, with lots of cowslips, harebells, devil’s-bit scabious and rampion.

The steepest bit to the southeast overlooks Cricketing Bottom and many traditional flowers survive including dropwort, thyme and cowslips.

The parish of Rodmell lies within the Kingston ward of Lewes District Council, which returns a single councillor.

East Sussex County Council is the next tier of government, for which Rodmell is within the Newhaven and Ouse Valley West division, with responsibility for Education, Libraries, Social Services, Civil Registration, Trading Standards and Transport.

The Liberal Democrat Norman Baker served as the constituency MP from 1997 but the Conservative Maria Caulfield was elected in 2015.

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