Maresfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Maresfield, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 2 miles N of Uckfield station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Uckfield. The parish includes the chapelry of Nutley, and comprises. 8132 acres; population, 2116. The manor belongs to Viscount Gage. Maresfield Park, a modern brick mansion within. extensive grounds, is the seat of the Shelleys. Much of the land is under wood. There are large nursery and flower gardens, brickworks, and corn mills. The living is a rectory,. united with Ashdown Forest, in the diocese of Chichester,. net value, £400 with residence. The church is principally of the Perpendicular period and style, grafted upon a building of much earlier date; there is an Early English window and also an Early Norman one. It comprises nave, transepts, and chancel, with a handsome tower. The whole building was beautifully restored in 1879. Christ Church, Ashdown Forest, is a stone building in the Early English style, and was built in 1881. The vicarage of Nutley is a separate benefice. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Maresfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Maresfield 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