Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEXHILL

BEXHILL, a village, a parish, a hundred, and a subdistrict, in Sussex. The village stands on a rising ground, in the neighbourhood of the sea and of the South Coast railway, 5 miles WSW of Hastings. It has a station on the railway, a post office‡ under Hastings, and an inn; and a fair is held at it on 1 July. It contains some good houses: commands some chalybeate springs; enjoys a very salubrious air; is surrounded by charming environs, with fine extensive views; and has, for some time, been coming into favour as a watering-place.—The parish includes also the liberty of Sluice; and extends some distance on the shore. Acres, 8,814; of which 815 are water. Real property, £11,799. Pop., 2,084. Houses, 409. The property is subdivided. The sea is receding from the coast, and has left to view a submarine forest. Lignite is found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £989.* Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church has a Norman nave and an early English chancel; and is good. A subordinate church, St. Mark's, is a rectory and a separate charge, of the value of £286, also in the patronage of the Bishop. There are a Wesleyan chapel and two national schools.-The hundred is conterminate with the parish. The subdistrict comprises four parishes, and is in Battle district. Pop., 4,512. Houses, 844.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a hundred, and a subdistrict"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bexhill AP/CP       Bexhill HalfHundred/Hundred       Bexhill SubD       Sussex AncC
Place: Bexhill

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