Burgess Hill, Sussex
Historical Description
Burgess Hill, an urban sanitary district and an ecclesiastical parish in the S of Sussex, 3½ miles S by E of Cuckfield, on the L.B. & S.C.R. 41 miles from London, with a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Area of the urban sanitary district, 1505 acres; population, 4145; of the ecclesiastical parish St John, 4413. The district, which comprises parts of Clayton and Keymer, is governed by a local board of 12 members. Large drainage works on Denton's system have been carried out. There are mission rooms and a literary institute with a library. A large sheep and lamb fair is held on 5 July. Bricks and tiles are largely manufactured in this district. A church was erected here in 1863 at a cost of £5000, is in the Early Decorated style; consists of nave, aisle, and transept, with tower and spire; the walls brick, the facings variously coloured brick and Bath stone. It was much enlarged in 1889, and at the same time a fine organ was erected. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £300. There are Congregational and Baptist chapels, and a Plymouth Brethren meeting-house.
Maps
Online maps of Burgess Hill 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: