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A vision of Britain through time
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BURWASH, or Burghersh, a village and a parish in Ticehurst district, Sussex The village stands on an affluent of the river Rother, 2½ miles WSW of Etchingham r. station, and 8 NW of Battle; and has a post office,‡ of the name of Burwash, under Hurst Green. It was formerly a market town, and still has fairs on 12 May and 4 Oct.; and it is a seat of petty sessions. The parish comprises 7,321 acres. Real property, £8,817. Pop., 2,143. Houses, 422. The property is much subdivided. There is a chalybeate spring. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £699.* Patron, the Rev. J. Gould. The church is early and later English, and was restored in 1856. A chapel of ease, in the early English style, was built at Burwash-Common in 1867. There are an Independent chapel, a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £40. Burwash gives the title of Viscount to the Earl of Westmoreland.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Burwash CP/AP Ticehurst RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | BURGHERSH | BURWASH | BURWASH OR BURGHERSH |
| Place: | Burwash |
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