Udimore, Sussex

Historical Description

Udimore, a parish in Sussex, 3 miles WNW of Winchelsea station on the S.E.R. It includes a detached part called Little Udimore, and it has a post office under Rye; money order and telegraph office, Rye. Acreage, 2288; population of the civil parish, 410; of the ecclesiastical, 385. There is a parish council of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £100. The church is chiefly Early English. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Udimore from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Udimore 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