Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RIPE, Rype, or Eckington

RIPE, Rype, or Eckington, a village and a parish in Lewes district, Sussex. The village stands 2 miles N of Berwick r. station, and 7 E by S of Lewes; and has a post-office, of the name of Ripe, under Hurst-Green. The parish comprises 1, 770 acres-Real property, £3,004. Pop., 358. Houses, 65. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £431.* Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church, which has been recently restored, is chiefly early English; and has a decorated E window, and a good tower. ' There is a national school.


(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: Ripe CP/AP       Sussex AncC
Place names: ECKINGTON     |     RIPE     |     RIPE RYPE OR ECKINGTON     |     RYPE
Place: Ripe

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