Bishopstone, Sussex

Historical Description

Bishopstone, a parish and a hundred in Sussex. The parish lies 9 miles SSE of Lewes, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 57 miles from London. It has a post office under Lewes; money order office, Newhaven; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 1801; population, 301. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £158 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is Norman and Early English, has a tower of four stages, was restored in 1885, and possesses high interest to artists and antiquaries. It has a south porch, which is Saxon and supposed to date from 917. The Rev. J. Hurdis, author of the " Village Curate," was a native, and his monument is in the church.

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 Bishopstone from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Bishopstone 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