South Heighten, Sussex
Historical Description
Heighten or South Heighten, a parish in Sussex, adjacent to the river Ouse, and 1¼ mile N by E of Newhaven station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Lewes; money order and telegraph office, Newhaven. Acreage, 980; population of the civil parish, 217; of the ecclesiastical, 304. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Tarring Neville, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £210. The church of Heighten was destroyed by lightning in 1769, and on the site of the ancient Saxon church of St Martin now stands a substantial iron church. The works of the Sussex Portland Cement Company are in this parish.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of South Heighten 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: