Ticehurst, Sussex

Historical Description

Ticehurst, a village, a parish, and a district, in Sussex. The village stands on high ground, 3 miles ENE of Ticehurst Road station on the S.E.R., 44 miles from London, and 10 SE of Tunbridge Wells. It presents a clean and pleasant appearance, contains some neat villas, and has two good inns, an ancient church, Calvinistic and Wesleyan chapels, a mechanics' institute, and fairs on 4 May and 7 Oct. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hawkhurst. Acreage of the civil parish, 8265; population, 2931; of the ecclesiastical, 1838. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £367 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The vicarages of Stonegate and Flimwell are separate benefices. Highlands, known officially as Ticehurst House, is a splendid range of buildings, delightfully situated, which for nearly a century has been maintained as a private asylum of the first class for the nervous and insane.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ticehurst from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ticehurst 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