Robertsbridge or Rotherbridge, Sussex

Historical Description

Robertsbridge or Rotherbridge, a village in Salehurst parish, Sussex, on the river Bother, with a station on the S.E.R., 50 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, an institute with reading-room, workmen's club, a hotel, two bridges, a fortnightly market on Monday, and a fair on 25 September. A Cistercian abbey was founded at an adjacent farm in 1176 by Alured de St Martino, was given at the dissolution to Sir W. Sidney, and has left some remains, which are incorporated with the farmhouse. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, and Baptist chapels; also a Gospel mission hall.

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 Robertsbridge or Rotherbridge from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Robert's-Bridge, or Rother-Bridge)

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