Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HADLOW DOWN

HADLOW DOWN, a hamlet in Mayfield parish, and a chapelry in Mayfield and Buxted parishes, Sussex. The hamlet lies 3¾ miles SW by W of Mayfield, and 4½ NE of Uckfield r. station; and has a post office under Uckfield. The chapelry was constituted in 1837. Pop., 981. Houses, 191. Pop. of the Mayfield portion, 605. Houses, 118. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £126.* Patron, alternately the Rector of Buxted and the Vicar of Mayfield. There is a Baptist chapel.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Buxted AP/CP       Mayfield AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place: Hadlow Down

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