Selmeston, Sussex

Historical Description

Selmeston, a parish in Sussex, 1 mile W by N of Berwick station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6½ miles ESE of Lewes. Post town, Polegate; money order office, Firle; telegraph office, Berwick railway station. Acreage, 1599; population, 210. The manor belongs to Viscount Gage. The living is a vicarage, united with Alciston, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £220 with residence. The church is Early English, and was rebuilt in 1867.

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 Selmeston from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Selmeston 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