Burwash Weald, Sussex

Historical Description

Burwash Weald, a parish in Sussex, 3 miles from Ticehurst Road station on the S.E.R. It has a post and money order office (S.O.); telegraph office, Burwash. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 990. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £185 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church, which is in Early English style, is good. There is also a Wesleyan chapel.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Maps

Online maps of Burwash Weald 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