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Selmeston, Sussex

Historical Description

Selmeston, a parish in Sussex, 1 mile W by N of Berwick station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6½ miles ESE of Lewes. Post town, Polegate; money order office, Firle; telegraph office, Berwick railway station. Acreage, 1599; population, 210. The manor belongs to Viscount Gage. The living is a vicarage, united with Alciston, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £220 with residence. The church is Early English, and was rebuilt in 1867.

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 parishSelmeston St. Mary 
HundredDanehill-Horsted 
Poor Law unionWest Firle 

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DistrictWealden
CountyEast Sussex
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtBN26
Post TownPolegate

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