Buxted, Sussex

Historical Description

Buxted, a village and a parish in Sussex, on the L.B. & S.C.R., 44 miles from London. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Uckfield. Acreage of the civil parish, 8961; population, 2039; of the ecclesiastical, St Margaret, 485, and St Mary, 540. The parishes of High-Hurst Wood, St Mary's, a portion of Hadlow Down, and (in the 12th century) Uckfield have all been formed from the parish of Buxted. Busted Park is the property of Viscount Portman. Hog House is a structure of 1581, and was the seat of the Hogges. One of this family, Ralph Hogge, in 1543, made the first cast-iron cannon ever made in England; and his name, altered into Huggett, is still common among the Sussex blacksmiths. The living (St Margaret's) is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester, net value, £485 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is chiefly Early English, in good condition; has a low fihingled spire, and contains a brass of 1375. St Mary's is a vicarage; gross value, £150 with residence. High-Hurst Wood (Trinity) is also in the gift of the Archbishop; value, .-£300 with residence. Wotton the linguist, and the two Clarkes, grandfather and father of Clarke the traveller, were rectors.

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 Buxted from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Buxted 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