Playden, Sussex

Historical Description

Playden, a parish in Sussex, on the river Rother, at the junction of the Military Canal, three-quarters of a mile N of Rye station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Rye; money order and telegraph office, Rye. Acreage, 1296; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, 441. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of East Guildford, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £340 with residence. The church is Early English with some Norman fragments.

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 Playden from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Playden 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