East Blatchington or Bletchington, Sussex

Historical Description

Blatchington or Bletchington, East, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, 1 mile NNW of Seaford station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Seaford under Lewes, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 735; population, 434. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is good, and was restored in 1860. A convalescent home, for men only, was erected in 1890 for the county of Surrey.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for East Blatchington or Bletchington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blatchington, or Bletchington, East (St. Peter))

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