Westmeston, Sussex

Historical Description

Westmeston, a parish, with East Chiltington hamlet, in Sussex, 3 miles ESE of Hassocks Gate station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6½ NNE of Brighton. Post town, Hassocks; money order office, Ditchling; telegraph office, Keymer. Acreage, 2436; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, 718. Middleton House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, with East Chiltington annexed, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £340 with residence. The church is a plain builiding of flint, chiefly in the Early English style, and has been restored. A chapel of ease is at Chiltington.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Westmeston from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Westmeston 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