Slaugham, Sussex

Historical Description

Slaugham, a parish in Sussex, 3½ miles WSW of Balcombe station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3¾ NW of Cuckfield. It is cut into the sections of Handcross, Pease Pottage, Warningfield, and Slaugham, and it has a post office under Crawley; money order and telegraph office, Handcross, Acreage, 5482; population, 1616. The neighbourhood is very pretty, and contains many gentlemen's seats. Ruins of a quondam splendid mansion of the Coverts occupy about 3 acres, and include several Norman arches. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £250 with residence. The church is Decorated English, and has been well restored. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A spring of excellent water rises in Slaugham Park, from which the whole of the village is supplied.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Slaugham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Slaugham 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