East Dean (Eastbourne), Sussex
Historical Description
Dean, East, a parish in Sussex, on the coast near Beachy Head, 3½ miles WSW of Eastbourne station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post and telegraph office under Eastbourne; money order office, Eastbourne. Area, 2168 acres of land, and 177 of water; population of the civil parish, 268; of the ecclesiastical, 360. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Friston, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £213 with residence. Patrons, the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Chichester alternately. The church is good. A working men's institute and reading-room was erected in 1884.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Sussex | |
Hundred | Willington | |
Poor Law union | Eastbourne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Dean (Eastbourne) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dean, East)
Newspapers and Periodicals
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