Catsfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Catsfield, a parish in Sussex, near the Tunbridge-Wells and Hastings railway, 2½ miles SW of Battle, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 3017; population, 791. Catsfield Place, the seat of the Hayley family, is a chief residence. Normanhurst, the residence of Lord Brassey, is situated on high land in the northern part of the parish; it is a noble mansion containing many fine pictures, and some rare specimens of Italian tapestry. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chiches-ter; value, £301 with residence. The church is Decorated English. 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 Catsfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Catsfield 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