Pyecombe or Piecombe, Sussex

Historical Description

Pyecombe or Piecombe, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 2½ miles S by W of Hassocks station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5½ N by W of Brighton. It is sheltered on the NE and the SW by the Downs, and has a post office-under Hassocks; money order office, Hassocks; telegraph office, Hurst Pierpoint. Acreage of parish, 2249; population, 353. There is a parish council of five members and a chairman. The manor and much of the land belong to the Crown. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester;. net value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old, and there is a very curious leaden font of 1180 date.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pyecombe or Piecombe from the following:

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

Newspapers and Periodicals

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• 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