Beckley, Sussex

Historical Description

Beckley, a parish in Sussex. It adjoins the river Pother, on the border of the county, 6 miles NW of Rye station on the S.E.R. It was known to the Saxons as Beccanlen, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 5620; population, 1141. There were formerly extensive ironworks, and one part of the parish is still called Beckley Furnace. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net. value, £600 with residence. Patrons, University College, Oxford. The church is very good, and was restored in 1885. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Beckley from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Beckley 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