Newtimber, Sussex

Historical Description

Newtimber, a parish in Sussex, 2½ miles SSW of Hurstpierpoint, and 2¼ from The Dyke station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Hassocks; money order and telegraph office, Hurstpierpoint. Acreage, 1721; population, 203. New-timber Place is an ancient brick mansion surrounded by a moat. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £206 with residence. The church is of the 13th century, has been restored and several lancet windows added in harmony with the old ones; has some stained glass and a carved oak Jacobean pulpit. A modern tower was annexed at west end about the year 1840, and a new vestry and organ chamber were added on the S side of the chancel in 1893.

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 Newtimber from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (New-Timber (St. John the Evangelist))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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• 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