Piddinghoe, Sussex

Historical Description

Piddinghoe, a parish in Sussex, on the river Ouse, 1½ mile NNW of Newhaven station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Lewes; money order and telegraph office, Newhaven. Acreage, 2347; population of the civil parish, 241; of the ecclesiastical, with Telscombe, 369. The manor belongs to the Earl of Sheffield. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Telscombe, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £300 with residence. The church consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with round tower and shingled spire, and was restored in 1882. A S aisle was added at the restoration on the old foundation.

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 Piddinghoe from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Piddinghoe 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