A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
IFORD, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; near the river Ouse, under the Downs, 2 ½ miles S by W of Lewes r. station. It has a post office under Lewes. Acres, 2, 173. Real property, £2, 538. Pop., 167. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. The manor house and the great tithes belong to the Rosseters. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Kingstonnear-Lewes, in the diocese of Chichester. Valne, £343. * Patron, Rev. T. Bedford. The church is Norman and early English, and was lately restored; and has a low square central tower, with shingled spire. Swanborough, ½ a mile NW of the church, is an old farmhouse, with considerable remains of early English and early perpendicular architecture; includes a quondam chapel; and was a grange of the priory of St. Pancras, Lewes.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Iford AP/CP Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Iford |
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