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Denton, Sussex

Historical Description

Denton, a parish in Sussex, on the river Ouse, 1½ mile-N of Newhaven station on the L.B. & S.C.R.. and 5 miles SSE of Lewes. Post town, Newhaven, under Lewes; money order and telegraph office, Newhaven. Acreage, 1016; population, 534. The manor belongs to the duchy of Lancaster. The L.B. & S.C.R. Company have a reservoir here for supplying their premises and steamboats at Newhaven Wharf. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £148.

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 parishDenton St. Leonard 
HundredBishopstone 
Poor Law unionNewhaven 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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DistrictLewes
CountyEast Sussex
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtBN9
Post TownNewhaven

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