Glynde, Sussex

Historical Description

Glynde, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on an affluent of the river Ouse, 3 miles ESE of Lewes, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 55 miles from London, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lewes. Acreage, 1570; population, 329. Glynde Place, the seat of the late Viscount Hampden, is now the property of Capt. The Hon. T. S. Brand, B.N. Mount Cabum, within the parish, has on its summit an ancient circular entrenchment, and was the subject of a poem by William Hay, who lived in last century, and wrote a number of works on various topics. Glyndebourne with its park, the seat of the Hay family, now the property of W. L. Christie, Esq., late M.P. for Lewes and the lineal representative of the Hays, is situated in this parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury; gross value, £240 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The church is in the Grecian style, was built in 1765 by Richard Trevor, bishop of Durham, and has over its portico the arms of the see of Durham, impaling those of the Trevors. An obelisk stands in the churchyard to the memory of two sons of Sir D. Wedder-burn, and has an inscription by Mrs Hemans. Hay's charity for the poor has £300 a year income, two-thirds of the same going to the aged poor of Ringhill, and one-third distributed in Glynde. A young men's institute and reading-room was erected by Viscount Hampden in 1887. Glynde Creameries, started by the late Viscount Hampden and now carried on by a company, the largest dairy establishment in the south-eastern counties, has a factory here.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Glynde from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Glynde 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