Netherfield, Sussex
Historical Description
Netherfield, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Sussex. The hamlet lies 3½ miles WNW of Battle station on the S.E.R., and has a post office under Battle; money order and telegraph office. Battle. The parish was constituted in 1862. Population, 446. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church was built in 1860, after designs by S. S. Teulon; it is a beautiful edifice, with a very fine carved stone and marble reredos, and four painted windows in the chancel, the E one of which is a memorial window, also one on the S side of the nave in memory of the late vicar, and together with parsonage and schools was erected and endowed by Lady Webster in memory of her deceased husband, Sir Geodfrey Webster.
Maps
Online maps of Netherfield 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: