Alciston, Sussex

Historical Description

Alciston, a parish and a hundred in Sussex, 2 miles S of Berwick station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6½ SE of Lewes. The money order office is at Alfriston; telegraph office at Berwick railway station. Acreage, 2090; population, 204. The manor belonged anciently to the Abbot of Battle. The village lies at the foot of the Downs. The living is a vicarage, united to Selmeston, in the diocese of Chichester. The church shows features of Norman and of Early English, and is in tolerable condition. The hundred of Alciston is in the rape of Pevensey, and comprises the parishes of Alciston, Alfriston, and Lullington. Some remains of a monastic house may be traced in the buildings of the Court House farm. The large barn near the church deserves attention- also the Columbarium of the monastery, which stands in the farmyard.

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 Alciston from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Alciston 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