West Blatchington or Bletchington, Sussex

Historical Description

Blatchington or Bletchington, West, a parish in Sussex, near the South Coast railway, 2½ miles NW of Brighton, which is the post, money order, and telegraph office. Acru-age, 873; population, 95. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Brighton, in the diocese of Chichester. The Church of St Peter lay in ruins for more than a century, but has recently been beautifully restored.

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 West Blatchington or Bletchington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blatchington, West (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of West Blatchington or Bletchington 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