Polegate, Kent

Historical Description

Polegate, a hamlet in Hailsham parish, Sussex, with a junction station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 57 miles from London and 15 from Hastings. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. For parish council purposes it forms a ward of Hailsham parish, and returns three members. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Hailsham, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is a building of Kentish rag in the Gothic style, erected in 1876.

Maps

Online maps of Polegate 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 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.