Crawley, Sussex

Historical Description

Crawley, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the boundary with Surrey, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 29 miles from London, and 7½ W by S of East Grimstead; it has been much improved and extended, and has a head post, money order, and telegraph office, two inns, a church. Congregational, Baptist, and Roman Catholic chapels, and fairs on 8 May and 9 Sept. The church is Decorated English, with a square tower, and was restored in 1880. It has a very fine old roof and curious crossbeam. The carved oak work in the church is worth inspection, and is the work of the rector, the Rev. J. B. Lennaid. The Roman Catholic chapel, with conventual buildings, was erected in 1861 at a cost of £5000, but is very plain. The parish comprises 780 acres; population, 437. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £114 with residence.

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 Crawley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Crawley (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Crawley 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