Hellingly, Sussex

Historical Description

Hellingly, a parish in Sussex. It lies on the river Cuckmere, 2 miles from Hailsham, and 9 from Eastbourne, and has a station on the Groombridge and Tunbridge Wells branch of the L.B. & S.C.B.) 62 miles from London, and contains the hamlet of Horsebridge. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 6050; population of the civil parish, 157; of the ecclesiastical, 1371. The soil is gravel. A deer park of the Pelhams in the time of Henry VIII. was the scene of an affray which led to the execution of Lord Dacre of Hurst-monceaux at Tybnrn. John Milles, a Protestant minister of Hellingly, was brought to the stake in the time of Queen Mary. There is a medicinal spring. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Chichester. The church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, was restored in 1869, and again in 1886. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels, and the Hailsham Workhouse.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hellingly from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hellingly (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Hellingly 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