Offham Street, Sussex

Historical Description

Offham Street, a hamlet in Hamsey parish, Sussex, on the old Roman road, 2 miles NNW of Lewes. It has a post office under Lewes. Chalk pits are adjacent to it, and remains are there of the earliest piece of railway formed in the S of England-an inclined plane for conveying the chalk of the pits to the Ouse river.

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 Offham Street from the following:

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

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