Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHALVINGTON

CHALVINGTON, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; adjacent to the river Cuckmere, 2½ miles NNW of Berwick r. station, and 5 W of Hailsham. Post Town, Ripe, under Hurst Green. Acres, 729. Real property, £1,057. Pop., 149. Houses, 26. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £200.* Patron, O. Fuller Meyrick, Esq. The church is decorated English.


(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: Chalvington AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place: Chalvington

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