Horsted Keynes, Sussex

Historical Description

Horsted Keynes, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 6 miles NE by E of Cuckfield, and has a junction station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 37 from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under East Grinstead, is picturesquely situated and much frequented by visitors. The parish includes part of Dane Hill chapelry, and comprises 4232 acres; population of the civil parish, 932; of the ecclesiastical, 792. The manor belongs to Viscount Hampden. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £380 with residence. The church is Early English and cruciform, with central tower and spire, and contains a cross-legged effigies 2½ feet long, and monuments of the Wyatts; the building was thoroughly restored in 1884. The churchyard contains the grave of Archbishop Leighton, who resided here during the last ten years of his life, and over the grave a tombstone was erected in 1857. There are a Baptist chapel and a village reading-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 Horsted Keynes from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Horsted-Keynes (St. Giles))

Maps

Online maps of Horsted Keynes 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