Kingston by Lewes, Sussex

Historical Description

Kingston-by-Lewes, a parish in Sussex, 1½ mile SW of Lewes station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Lewes. Acreage, 1675; population of civil parish, 117; of the ecclesiastical, 120. The living is a vicarage, held con jointly with the vicarage of Iford, in the diocese of Chichester; gross joint value, £317 with residence. The church has a tower with shingled spire, and contains a brass of 1667; the building was restored in 1874.

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Kingston by Lewes from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingston-Near-Lewes)

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