Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fairlight

Fairlight, coast par. and vil., E. Sussex, 2 ½ miles NE. of Hastings, 2884 ac. and 291 foreshore, pop. 482; in vicinity of vil. are Fairlight Down (599 ft.), Fairlight Glen, a densely wooded hollow, and the seats of Fairlight Lodge and Fairlight Place.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fairlight AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place: Fairlight

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