Crowborough, Sussex
Historical Description
Crowborough, an ecclesiastical parish in Uckfield union, Sussex, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 41 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Tunbridge Wells. Population of All Saints, 2068, and of St John the Evangelist, 145. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £220. Patron, the Marquis of Abergavenny. The church, rebuilt in 1883, is a stone edifice in the Norman style with 400 sittings. There are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels, a Church of England echool chapel, and a handsome Oddfellows' hall. The place is rapidly gaining a reputation as a health resort. Crow-borough Beacon is 800 feet above sea level.
Maps
Online maps of Crowborough 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: