Ripe, Rype, or Eckington, Sussex

Historical Description

Ripe, Rype, or Eckington, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 3 miles N of Berwick station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 7 E by S of Lewes, and has a post and money order office under Hawkhurst; telegraph office, Upper Dicker. Acreage of parish, 1900; population, 387. There is a parish council of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £340 with residence. Patron, Hertford College, Oxford, The church, which has been restored, is chiefly Early English, and has a decorated E window and a good tower. There is a Baptist chapel.

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 Ripe, Rype, or Eckington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ripe, or Eckington (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Ripe, Rype, or Eckington 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