Uckfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Uckfield, a small town and a parish in Sussex. The town stands on a tributary of the river Ouse, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 47 miles from London, and 8 NE by N of Lewes, and a post, money order, and telegraph office. It enjoys pleasant environs, is a seat of petty sessions, carries on brewing, brick and tile making, and a trade in corn and timber, and has several good hotels, a public hall, an institute, a bank, a corn exchange, an endowed grammar-school, a workhouse, a fortnightly cattle market, and fairs on 14 May and 29 Aug. Acreage of parish, 1760; population, 2497. It has an urban district council of fifteen members. There are several mansions and many neat villas. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is a plain building of stone, and has been twice enlarged. There are a chapel of ease, a Roman Catholic, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Congregational chapels. A cottage hospital was erected in 1881.

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 Uckfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Uckfield 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