Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BALCOMBE

BALCOMBE, a village and a parish in Cuckfield district, Sussex. The village stands on a pleasant spot, adjacent to the London and Brighton railway, 4 mile N of Cuckfield; and it has a station on the railway, post office under Cuckfield, a small inn. and a fair on 1 April. The parish comprises 4,786 acres; of which 1,18 are in Highbeach warren. Real property, £3,652 Pop., 880. Houses, 170. The property is divide among a few. Balcombe Place and Wakehurst Place are elegant mansions. A tunnel of the railway, 1,139 yards long, goes through a hill within the parish; an the Ouse viaduct, 100 feet high and upwards of ¼ of mile long, with 37 arches of 30 feet each in span, is about 1½ mile from the station. The parish is a meet for the Horsham hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £515.* Patron, the Rev G.Bethune. The church is early English in part, and very good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Balcombe AP/CP       Cuckfield RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Balcombe

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