Elsted, Sussex

Historical Description

Elsted, a parish in Sussex, with station on the L. & S.W.R. 61 miles from London, and 4½ WSW of Midhurst. Post town, Petersfield; money order office, South Harting; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 1840; population of the civil parish, 191; of the ecclesiastical, with Freyford and Didling, 366. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Treyford and the vicarage of Didling, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £250 with residence. The church is partly Norman, and was restored in 1873. There is a Methodist mission room.

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 Elsted from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Elsted 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