Ashurst, Sussex

Historical Description

Ashurst, a parish in Sussex, on the river Adur, 3½ miles N of Steyning, and 2 SSW of Partridge-Green station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Steyning; money order and telegraph office, Partridge-Green. Acreage, 2335; population, 327. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chiches-ter; net value, £280. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford, The church is small but good, and was restored in 1877. Ashurst, a hamlet in East Grinstead parish, Sussex.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ashurst from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashurst)

Maps

Online maps of Ashurst are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer