Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OFFHAM-STREET

OFFHAM-STREET, a hamlet in Hamsey parish, Sussex; on the old Roman road, 2 miles N N W of Lewes. It has a post-office under Lewes. Chalk pits are adjacent to it; and remains are there of the earliest piece of railway formed in the S of England, an inclined plane for conveying the chalk of the pits to the Ouse river.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hamsey AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place: Offham

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