Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUXTED

BUXTED, a village and a parish in Uckfield district, Sussex. The village adjoins the Brighton and TunbridgeWells rail, 1½ mile NE of Uckfield; and has a post office under Uckfield, a r. station, and a fair on 31 July. The parish comprises 8,943 acres. Real property, £7,324. Pop., 1,624. Houses, 326. The property is much subdivided. Buxted Place is the seat of Colonel Harcourt; and has a picturesque park. Hendall is an ancient house, long the seat of the family of Pope. Hog House is a structure of 1581; and was the seat of the Hogges. One of this family, Ralph Hogge, in 1543, made the first cast-iron cannon ever made in England; and his name, altered into Huggett, is still common among the Sussex blacksmiths. A relic of the old iron manufacture, in the form of a hammer-post, is at Howbourne. An hospital was founded in Buxted, in 1404, by William Hown. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £403.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is chiefly early English, in good condition; has a low shingled spire; and contains a brass of 1375. The vicarage of Hadlow-Down is a separate benefice. Wotton, the linguist, and the two Clarkes, grandfather and father of Clarke the traveller, were rectors. There are a Calvinist chapel, a national school, and charities £144.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Buxted AP/CP       Uckfield RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Buxted

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