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Hailsham

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Hailsham

Market town in East Sussex, England, 11 km/7 mi north of Eastbourne; population (2001) 16,600. Hailsham's parish church of St Mary is built in the late-medieval Perpendicular style of Gothic.

Close by is the Augustinian priory of Michelham, with an old gatehouse, crypt, and grounds, the property of the Sussex Archaeological Trust but open to the public.



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Hailsham is a place of rigid and mysterious rules, and teachers constantly remind their charges just how special they are.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never let me go by Howard, Sarah / Kliatt
When one of Kathy's donors, dying painfully, asks her to recount tales of her famous boarding school, Hailsham, she tells of a quite ordinary childhood--or a childhood that would seem ordinary were a reader not aware that Kathy's classmates, too, have gone on to become donors and carers, and that some of the childhood customs at Hailsham are distinctly puzzling.
Spare parts by Sayers, Valerie / Commonweal
At what we later learn is the literally ripe old age of thirty-one, Kathy thinks back on her salad days at a strange kind of English public school called Hailsham (perhaps an ironic echo of halcyon).
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