Wivelsfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Wivelsfield, a parish in Sussex, 2 miles from Keymer Junction on the L.B. & S.C.R., 2½ NNE of Burgess Hill station, and 4 SE of Cuckfield. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Haywards Heath. Acreage, 3142; population, 1983. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The Sussex County Lunatic Asylum was built in 1857-59 at a cost of nearly £50,000, has annexed to it a neat chapel, and stands on high ground about a mile S of Haywards Heath railway station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £130 with residence. The church is a small building of stone in the Early English style with an embattled tower, and has been restored. There are Baptist and Congregational 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 Wivelsfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Wivelsfield 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