Hadlow Down, Sussex

Historical Description

Hadlow Down, an ecclesiastical parish in Sussex, formed out of the old parishes of Mayfield and Buxted. The population is 1100. The church and village of Hadlow Down are 4½ niiles from Mayfield station and 2½ from Buxted station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Five Ashes is a hamlet of Hadlow Down on the Mayfield Road. There is a post and money order office in the village, and a post office also at Five Ashes; telegraph office, Buxted. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £138 with residence. Patron, alternately the Rector of Buxted and the Vicar of Mayfield. The church was erected in 1837.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hadlow Down from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hadlow-Down (St. Mark))

Maps

Online maps of Hadlow 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