Plastow or Plaistow, Sussex

Historical Description

Plastow or Plaistow, a village in Kirdford parish, Sussex, near the boundary with Surrey, 6 miles from Rudgwick station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 7 from Wittey on the London and Portsmouth railway. It has a post office under Horsham; money order and telegraph office, Wisborough Green. It forms a ward of Kirdford parish council, and returns five members to that council. The living is annexed to Kirdford vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. The church is modern.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Plastow or Plaistow from the following:

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

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