Westfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Westfield, a parish in Sussex, 4 miles E of Battle station on the S.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Battle; telegraph office, Sedlescombe. Acreage, 4314; population, 1051. Oaklands, Crowham Manor, and Westfield House are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £375 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored. There are Congregational, Bible Christian, and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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 Westfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westfield (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Westfield 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