East Chiltington reads as scattered cottages and farmhouses more than a village centre — the kind of place where the pub and the church do most of the social work, and where you're more likely to pass a tractor than a bus. With just over four hundred people spread thinly across the parish, and a median age pushing 48, this is a settled, older population rather than a starter-home crowd. The practical picture takes a bit of piecing together, because there isn't much of one to piece. There's no rail station in the data here and no primary or secondary school in the village itself — the only listed school is Plumpton College, a further-education campus, which tells you this isn't a place with its own school run. Four bus stops serve the parish. Full-fibre broadband reaches seven in ten homes, which is a decent baseline if you're working from the cottage rather than commuting out of it. This is a place you drive from, not one you commute through. Property here is almost entirely freehold houses — terraced homes dominate the small sample of recent sales, alongside a scattering of detached properties, and every sale in the data was freehold, which fits a village with no flats and no new-build estate to speak of. At a median of £365,000, prices sit a little below the wider Lewes district (down about 3%) and below the South East regional median too, though still comfortably above the national figure. It's not cheap, but relative to its own district it's not the premium end either. Green space is limited on paper — six small plots totalling under two hectares — though in a working countryside parish like this, the real green space is the farmland around you rather than anything mapped as parkland. Safety is where East Chiltington quietly stands out: the overall grade sits at a strong B+, but safety alone is graded A, well above the norm, with the annual crime count in the low twenties and violence/anti-social behaviour making up the bulk of it — modest numbers for anywhere, let alone typical for a village this size. Health and connectivity grades are solid too. The one soft spot is environment, marked down at C+, alongside housing at the same level — worth noting if green-space provision or housing variety matters to you, since the grades suggest this isn't a place chosen for its parks or its property mix. What you're buying into instead is quiet, space, and a settled community — the trade-off being that schools, station, and shops all live elsewhere, and you'll be driving to reach them.