Hollington, Sussex
Historical Description
Hollington, a parish in Sussex, 2 miles N by E of St Leonards.and 2½ NNW of Hastings station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hastings. Acreage, 2463; population of the civil parish, 2056; of the ecclesiastical, 2056. Beanport Park is the seat of the Lamb family, and contains a remarkably fine collection of conifera. A great beech tree which served as a landmark was burnt in 1889. There are many fine residences in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £180 with residence. The parochial church is ancient, but has been restored. St John's Church, in the lower part of the parish, was built in 1866 as a chapel of ease at a cost of about £3500, and is a handsome edifice in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The parish of St Leonard-on-the-Sea is supposed to have once been included in Hollington parish, being designated in old documents St Leonards-in-HoIlington.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Hollington St. Lawrence | |
| Hundred | Baldslow | |
| Poor Law union | Battle |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hollington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hollington (St. Lawrence))
Maps
Online maps of Hollington 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: