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Grinstead (East) in Sussex County England History and GeographyGRINSTEAD (EAST), a borough, market town, and parish, in the hundred of EASTGRINSTEAD, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 19¾ miles (N.) from Lewes, and 29½ (S. by E.) from London, containing 3153 inhabitants. The town is pleasantly situated on an eminence near the northern border of the county, on the road from London to Brighton: it was formerly a place of considerable importance, having given name to the hundred. It is irregularly built, but contains several neat modern houses; it is paved, but not lighted, and is supplied with water from wells. The market is on Thursday; and there is a market for cattle and live stock on the last Thursday in every month: fairs are held, April 21st, July 13th, and December 11th, the first and last of which are large cattle fairs; and at Forest Row, about three miles from the town, there are fairs annually on June 25th and November 8th. East Grinstead is a borough by prescription, under a bailiff, who is chosen yearly by a jury of burgage holders, at the court leet for the manor. It has returned two members to parliament ever since the first of Edward II., the right of election being vested in the holders of thirty-six burgage tenements, twenty-nine of which belong to the Duke of Dorset, who is thus the proprietor of the borough: the bailiff is the returning officer. The Lent assizes for the county were formerly held here, but have been discontinued since 1799. This place is within the liberty of the duchy of Lancaster. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of the Duke of Dorset. The church, dedicated to St. Swithin, is a handsome edifice in the later style of English architecture, consisting of a nave, aisles, chancel, and chantry chapels, and containing several interesting monuments. The tower, which was rebuilt after having fallen down in 1785, is a well proportioned structure, ornamented with angular pinnacles, and surmounted by a lofty spire. There is a place of worship for a congregation in the late Countess of Huntingdon's connexion. A free school was founded in 1708, by Robert Payne, and endowed with land producing about £40 per annum, now paid to the master of a National school recently established, and principally supported by voluntary contributions, in which seventy-five children are educated. At the east end of the town is Sackville college, a charitable institution, founded in the reign of James I., by the Earl of Dorset, for the support of twenty-four aged men and women, who receive £8 per annum each, and are under the government of a warden and two gentlemen assistants: there is a neat chapel belonging to the institution, and a suite of rooms is appropriated to the use of the Duke of Dorset. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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