Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CATSFIELD

CATSFIELD, a parish in Battle district, Sussex; near the Tunbridge Wells and Hastings railway, 2½ miles SW of Battle. It has a post office under Battle. Acres, 2,944. Real property, £2,819. Pop., 584. Houses, 109. The property is much subdivided. Catsfield Place is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £311.* Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is decorated English. There are a national school and a charity for the blind, the latter £60 a year.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Catsfield CP/AP       Battle RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Catsfield

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