Keymer, Sussex

Historical Description

Keymer or Kymere, a village and a parish in Sussex. The station for the village is Hassocks on the L.B. & S.C.R., 43 miles from Li. ndon. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hassocks. Acreage of the civil parish, 3573; population, 3045. Ecclesiastically, Keymer is joined to Clayton, and is a rectory in the diocese of Chiehester; joint gross value, £ti00. The northern part of these parishes has been formed into a separate ecclesiastical district under the name of the vicarage of St John's Common. This includes the Local Board district of Burgess Hill, and the portions of Clayton and Keymer parishes still farther north. The population of this ecclesiastical district in 1891 was 4413; that of Clayton and Keymer, 1398. The parish church was rebuilt, with the exception of the apsidal chancel, in 1866; a north aisle was added in 1890. The manufacture of brown-ware bricks and tiles is carried on at Burgess Hill. In this district, i.e.. Burgess Hill, there are two railway stations on the L.B. & S.C.R.-viz. Burgess Hill and Keymer Junction, the latter being nearly 3 miles from the village and church of Keymer.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Keymer from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Keymer, North and South)

Maps

Online maps of Keymer 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