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Chiddingly, Sussex

Historical Description

Chiddingly or Chittingleigh, a parish in Sussex, 4½ miles NW of Hailsham town and station on the L.B. & S.C.R., It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, at Upper Dicker (S.O.) Acreage, 4481; population, 882. 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, £204. 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. A large fair for sheep and horses is held annually on 23 July. There is a small Calvinistic chapel. , Chiddingstone or Chydingstone, a village and a parish in Kent. The village stands in the Weald, on the river Eden, 1¼ mile SW of Penshurst station on the S.E.R., and 6 miles WSW of Tunbridge, contains interesting specimens of old gabled timbered houses, and has a post and telegraph office under Edenbridge; money order office, Penshurst. The parish includes also the hamlet of Little Chiddingstone. Acreage, 5981; population of the civil parish, 1236; of the ecclesiastical, 1185. The manor belonged once to the Burghs and the Cobhams, and has belonged since the time of Henry VIII. to the Streatfields. The ancient manor-house was called High Street House, and the present one is modern and castellated. The Chiding Stone, figured by Grose, and the subject of curious tradition, is a weatherworn mass of sandstone, about 18 feet high, on the edge of the path behind the village. Wild boars anciently haunted the surrounding tract, and are commemorated here in the names of Boar Place and Boreshill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; net value, £555 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has a fine Perpendicular English tower, but includes some portions of Decorated date, and it contains many monuments of the Streatfields. It was restored in 1870.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySussex 
HundredShiplake 
Poor Law unionHailsham 

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