Mayfield Village sign

FOLLOWING A SPEECH BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY IN 1920 ON THE REVIVAL OF
•VILLAGE SIGNS, THE DAILY MAIL ORGANISED A VILLAGE SIGNS COMPETTION AND EXHIBITION, OFFERING ATOTAL OF £2200 IN PRIZES TEN AWARDS WERE MADE AND THE DESIGN FROM WHICH THIS SIGN WAS CONSTRUCTED SECURED SECOND PRIZE £500

The name Mayfield appears before the village was estabfished getting its title from ‘the field’, a clearing in the forest caused by early iron workers where Mayweed grows.

St. Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury
960-988AD built a wooden Church and a guesthouse here.
In 1260 Archbishop Boniface of Savoy gained permission from Pope Alexander IV to build a manor or palace, having built the first stone church the tower of which remains today.
The High Street developed from market stalls around 1330, after the Great Hall (now Mayfield School Chapel) had been built by master architect Michael of Canterbury probably between 1310 and 1318.