Isfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Isfield, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the river Onse, 2 miles SW by S of Uckfield, and has a station on the LB. & S.C.R., 49 from London. It has a post and telegraph office under Uckfield; money order office, Uckfield. Acreage, 1895; population, 423. Isfield Place was once a beautiful mansion, the seat of the Shurleys, was surrounded by a moat and by a lofty wall, with a kind of watch-tower at each corner, and still has the Shurley arms and mottoes over the door. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early Decorated English, was restored in 1876, and comprises nave and chancel. The tower was restored and raised and a spire added in 1894. On the S side of the church there is a chapel of the Shurleys, containing an elaborate altar-tomb of Sir John Shurley of 1631, and interesting monuments and brasses of other Shurleys.

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 Isfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Isfield 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