Ore, Sussex

Historical Description

Ore, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 1½ mile NNW of Hastings, and has a station on the S.E.R. 62 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hastings. Part of the civil parish is in the county borough of Hastings. Acreage, 2177; population of the civil parish, 5680; of the ecclesiastical parish of Christ Church, 3646; of St Helen, 839. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. Ore Place is a modern mansion, and stands near the site of an old mansion said to have belonged to John of Gaunt. Coghurst Hall is a handsome residence, and stands in a fine park. There are several other good residences, and the scenery around is very beautiful. The Hastings workhouse and the Hastings Borough Sanatorium are situated near the village. The living of St Helen is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £230 with residence. The old parochial church is a plain edifice of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with porch, vestry, and low tower, and the new one, a little to the NW, was founded in 1869. Christ Church, built in 1859, is in the Decorated English style, and consists of nave, N aisle, transept, and chancel, with bell-turret, and cost about £4000. The living is a vicarage; net value, £170. A Wesleyan chapel was built on the Vine Farm property.

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 Ore from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ore 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