Crawley Down, Sussex

Historical Description

Crawley Down, a chapelry in Worth parish, Sussex, 5 miles SE of Crawley. It was constituted in 1862, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.) Population, 1549. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £118 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Worth. The church, to which a south aisle has been added, is a good stone building in the Early English style, with a handsome new reredos.

Maps

Online maps of Crawley Down 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