Chiltington, Sussex

Historical Description

Chiltington, a manor in West Chiltington parish, Sussex. Chiltington, East, a township in Westmeston parish, Sussex, on a branch of the river Ouse, 2 miles from Plumpton station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Lewes; money order and telegraph office, Plumpton. Acreage, 1671; population, 436. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory of Westmeston, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is plain, and was restored in 1889. Chailey Workhouse, erected in 1873, is situated in this parish.

Maps

Online maps of Chiltington 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