Site-Search
Coming Soon
|
Site-Search |
|
Page and site |
|
Cuckfield in Sussex County England History and GeographyCUCKFIELD, a market town and parish, in the hundred of BUTTINGHILL, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 25 miles (N.E. by E.) from Chichester, and 40 (S.) from London, on the road to Brighton, containing 2385 inhabitants. This place is situated on a pleasant eminence, nearly in the centre of the county, and is handsomely built of fine free-stone, of which there are excellent quarries in the neighbourhood: the path-ways in the town are laid with bricks of a very firm and durable quality, formed of red clay, which is found within the distance of four miles, where also are strata of pipe-clay of peculiar whiteness: the inhabitants are supplied with water from springs. The market is on Friday: the fairs are, May 28th, Whit-Thursday, September 16th, and November 29th, for horses and cattle. The county magistrates hold petty sessions for the division at the court-house. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £20. 14. 2., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, is a large and handsome structure in the decorated style of English architecture, with a square tower surmounted by a spire covered with shingles, which, from its elevated situation, has been frequently injured by lightning. The free grammar school was founded in 1528, and endowed by Edward Flower, Esq., of London, and the Rev. William Spicer, of Balcomb, in this county, with the manor of Redstone, in the parish of Reigate, and other estates, for the instruction of the sons of parishioners of Cuckfield and Balcomb; the master's salary is £28 per annum: there are at present not more than five or six scholars on the foundation, though more than fifty pupils receive a classical education on payment of a quarterage to the master. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
Readers of this page were also interested in: Bakewell in Derby County England History and Geography Deptford in Surrey County England History and Geography DEPTFORD, a town partly in the eastern division of the hundred of BRIXTON, county of SURREY, but principally in the hundred of BLACKHEATH, lathe of SUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 4 miles (E.) from London, containing 20,818 inhabitants Gateshead in Durham County England History and Geography GATESHEAD, a parish in the eastern division of CHESTER ward, county palatine of DURHAM, I mile (S.S.E.) from Newcastle, and 14 (N. by E.) from Durham, containing, with the seamen of registered shipping, 11,767 inhabitants. This place is situated on the southern bank of the Tyne, opposite to Newcastle, with which it has a communication by a stone bridge Heytesbury in Wilts County England History and Geography HEYTESBURY, a borough, formerly a markettown, in the hundred of HEYTESBURY, county of WILTS, 3½ miles (E.S.E.) from Warminster, and 93 (W.S.W.) from London, containing 1329 inhabitants. The ancient appellations of this town were Hegtredesbyrig and Heightsbury, whence is obviously derived its present name Lathom in Lancaster County England History and Geography LATHOM, a township in the parish of ORMSKIRK, hundred of WEST DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER, 3¾ miles (N.E. by E.) from Ormskirk, containing 2997 inhabitants. The free grammar school at Newburgh, in this township, was erected, in 1714, by the Rev Southampton (County Of) in Southampton County England History and Geography SOUTHAMPTON (COUNTY of), a maritime county on the southern coast, bounded on the east by the counties of Surrey and Sussex, on the north by that of Berks, on the west by Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, and on the south by the English Channel. Including the Isle of Wight, it extends from 50? 36' to 51? 23' (N. Lat.), and from 45' to 1? 53' (W. Lon |
