Colgate, Sussex

Historical Description

Colgate, an ecclesiastical parish, formed from the civil parishes of Horsham and Lower Beeding, in Sussex. It is 1¼ mile from Faygate station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 miles from Horsham. It has a post and money order office under Horsham; telegraph office, Faygate. Population, 485. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £160. The church is a small building in the Early English style.

Maps

Online maps of Colgate 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