I was brought up in Uckfield, so I'm very familiar with the Piltdown environs. The deputy head at my school ran the Piltdown Man pub for a while I think. As a Hilaire Belloc fan (judging by your sig), you must know The Four Men - about an epic pub crawl across Sussex starting in Robertsbridge.
Indeed starting from the George. I don’t drink in there I use the Ostrich