Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WARBLETON

WARBLETON, a parish in Hailsham district, Sussex; 6½ miles N by E of Hailsham r. station. It has a post-office under Hurst-Green. Acres, 5,763. Real property, £5,518. Pop., 1,431. Houses, 282. The manor belongs to the Earls of Ashburnham and Chichester, and the Trustees of Smith's charity. Stone House is the seat of J. R. Dunn, Esq.; and Markly, of G. Darby, Esq. An Augustinian canonry was founded here, in 1413, by Sir J. Pelham; and now forms part of a farmhouse The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £585.* Patron, the Rev. G. E. Haviland. The church is good; and there are a parochial school, and charities £58.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Warbleton AP/CP       Hailsham RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Warbleton

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