Hartfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Hartfield, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the N verge of Ashdown Forest, adjacent to a headstream of the river Medway, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 34 miles from London, and 6 ESE of East Grinstead. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge Wells. The parish contains also the hamlet of Holtye Common, and the places called Bolebrooke, Perry Hill, Holly Hill, Gallypot Street, and Cat Street; it is cut into two divisions,-N and S, and comprises 10, 387 acres½ population of the civil parish, 1558; of the ecclesiastical, 1292. The manor belongs to Earl Delawarr. Much of the surface is forest-land, and about 70 acres are under hops. Fine views are obtained from Perry Hill, Holly Hill, and High Beeches. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £667 with residence. Patron, Earl Delawarr. The church includes Early English and Decorated English portions, has a square tower with branched spire, is in good condition, and contains many monumental tablets. There are a chapel of ease at Holtye Common, rebuilt in 1893, a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and various charities. There is a chapel of ease in Ashdown Park, and also a mission room at the Ridge.

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 Hartfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Hartfield 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