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Dallington, Sussex

Historical Description

Dallington, a parish in Sussex, 6 miles from Robertsbridge on the S.E.R., and 5½ from Heathfield on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1941; population, 422. The area was once part of the Great Forest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £166 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is good, and its tower commands a grand view. Sir Josepli Jekyll was a native. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic chapels, and a reading-room with library.

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 
Ecclesiastical parishDallington St. Margaret 
HundredFoxearle and Hawksborough 
Poor Law unionBattle 

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DistrictRother
CountyEast Sussex
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtTN21
Post TownHeathfield

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