Chiddingly

CHIDDINGLY, a parish, in the union of Hailsham, hundred of Shiplake, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 7 miles (S. E.) from Uckfield; containing 930 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Eastbourne, and comprises 4393a. 3r. 16p., of which about 2100 acres are arable, 975 meadow and pasture, 1051 wood, and 80 in hop-grounds; the surface is pleasingly undulated, and from Peake Hill are richly diversified prospects. Dicker Common, which was inclosed by act of parliament in 1813, is now fine corn land. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of Earl Amherst; impropriator, A. E. Fuller, Esq. The great tithes have been commuted for £550, and the vicarial for £252. 3.; the impropriate glebe comprises 34½ acres, and the vicarial 7 acres. The church is a handsome edifice, chiefly in the later style, with a square embattled tower of the early English style, surmounted by a spire; at the east end of the south aisle is a chapel in which is a splendid, though mutilated, monument to Sir John Jefferay, Knt., lord chief baron of the exchequer in the reign of Elizabeth.