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.
WALDRON, a parish in Uckfield district, Sussex; 5½ miles ESE of Uckfield r. station. It has a post-office under Hurst-Green; and it contains Cross-in-Hand, which has an inn and two fairs. Acres, 6,218. Real property, £4,890. Pop., 1,132. Houses, 204. The manors belong to the Earl of Chichester and Louis Huth, Esq. Horeham, Tanners, and Popingworth were formerly fine mansions, and are now farm-houses; but a noble residence has lately been built on the Popingworth estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £455. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1862; and another church built in 1863, at Cross-in-Hand. There are a Wesleyan chapel and two parochial schools.
(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: | Waldron AP/CP Uckfield RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Waldron |
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