Stonegate, Sussex

Historical Description

Stonegate, an ecclesiastical district of Ticehurst parish, Sussex, 1 mile NE of Ticehurst Road station on the S.E.R., and 9 miles SSE of Tunbridge Wells. It was constituted in 1839, and has a post office under Hawkhurst; money order office, Ticehurst; telegraph office, Ticehurst railway station. Population, 488. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £165 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Peter, is a building of brick in the Perpendicular style.

Maps

Online maps of Stonegate 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:

• 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