Chiddingly, Kent
Historical Description
Chiddingly or Chittingleigh, a parish in Sussex, 4½ miles NW of Hailsham town and station on the L.B. & S.C.R., It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, at Upper Dicker (S.O.) Acreage, 4481; population, 882. Chiddingly Place, once the seat of the Jefferays, was a very large Tudor mansion, but is now a fragmentary ruin. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £204. The church is chiefly Early English, but has a lofty steeple of later date, and it contains a stately monument of Chief Baron Sir John Jefferay. A large fair for sheep and horses is held annually on 23 July. There is a small Calvinistic chapel.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.