Stanmer, Sussex

Historical Description

Stanmer, a parish in Sussex, 1 mile NNW of Falmer station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 miles NE of Brighton. It has a post office under Lewes; money order office, Falmer; telegraph office, Falmer railway station. Acreage, 1341; population of the civil parish, 147; of the ecclesiastical, 690. The manor, with Stanmer Park, belongs to the Earl of Chichester. The living is a rectory, united with Falmer, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £340 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Chichester. The church is Early English, and has a tower and spire.

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 Stanmer from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Stanmer 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