Dallington, Sussex

Historical Description

Dallington, a parish in Sussex, 6 miles from Robertsbridge on the S.E.R., and 5½ from Heathfield on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1941; population, 422. The area was once part of the Great Forest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £166 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is good, and its tower commands a grand view. Sir Josepli Jekyll was a native. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic chapels, and a reading-room with library.

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 Dallington from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Dallington 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