Ifield, Sussex

Historical Description

Ifield, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the river Mole, 1½ mile NW of Crawley station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 7 miles NE of Horsham. There is a post office under Crawley; money order and telegraph office, Crawley. Acreage, 4133; population, 2817. Ifield Court House, an old moated building, has been taken down, and a new house, not within the moat, erected. Ironstone was formerly dug and smelted. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £150 with residence. The church is Early Decorated English; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, and contains recumbent statues of a Knight Templar and his lady. There is a Quakers' meeting-house here, and a church at West Green, consecrated in 1893. Oakwood is a chief residence.

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 Ifield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ifield (St. Margaret))

Maps

Online maps of Ifield 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