Cross in Hand, Sussex

Historical Description

Cross-in-Hand, a place in the south-east of Sussex, 3½ miles SSW of Mayfield, and 1½ mile from Heathfield station on the L.B. & S.C.R., on the summit of a ridge, commanding an extensive and magnificent view. It has a post and telegraph office, a small church, and a fair is held at it on 19 Nov. The church was built in 1863, is in the Early English style, and has a bell turret and an octagonal shingled spire.

Maps

Online maps of Cross in Hand 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