Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SELMESTON

SELMESTON, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; on the South Coast railway, 1 mile W by N of Berwick r.station, and 6¼ E S E of Lewes. It has a post-office under Lewes. Acres, 1, 590. Real property, £2,065. Pop., 197. Houses, 39. The manor belongs to Lord Gage. The living is a vicarage, united with Alciston, in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £330.* Patron, alternately the Bishop of and the Dean and Chapter ofThe church is early English.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Selmeston CP/AP       Sussex AncC
Place: Selmeston

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