West Hoathly, Sussex
Historical Description
Hoathly, West, or Westhothly, a village and a parish in Sussex, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 32 miles from London, and 4½ SW by S of East Grinstead. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under East Grinstead. Acreage of the civil parish, 5340; population, 1442; of the ecclesiastical, 1256. Eockhurst and Courtlands are the chief residences. Selsfield Common commands extensive views. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with tower and spire, and was restored in 1870. There is an Independent chapel. The ecclesiastical parish of Highbrook was formed in 1882 from West Hoathly. The living is a vicarage; value,, £150. The church is a small building of stone.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Hundred | Buttinghill | |
| Poor Law union | East Grinstead |
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 Hoathly from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hoathly, West)
Maps
Online maps of West Hoathly 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: