A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CHIDDINGLY, or Chittingleigh, a parish in Halesham district, Sussex: 4½ miles NW of Hailsham town and r. station. It has a post office under Hurst Green. Acres, 4, 297. Real property, £4, 922. Pop., 992. Houses, 199. The property is much subdivided. Chiddingly Place, once the seat of the Jefferays, was a very large Tudor mansion, but is now a fragmentary ruin. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £158. Patron, the Dowager Countess Amherst. The church is chiefly early English; but has a lofty steeple of later date: and it contains a stately monument of Chief Baron Sir John Jefferay. There are a national school, and charities £12.
(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: | Chiddingly AP/CP Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | CHIDDINGLY | CHIDDINGLY OR CHITTINGLEIGH | CHITTINGLEIGH |
| Place: | Chiddingly |
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