Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RINGMER

RINGMER, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Sussex. The village stands 2¾ miles N E of Lewes r.station; is supposed to have got its name by corruption of Regnimere, with allusion to the ancient Regnum; was the place from which White of Selborne dated many ofhis letters; enjoys a supply of the purest water from a public pump on its green; and has a post-office under Lewes, and a police station. The parish comprises 5, 826acres, and is in Lewes district. Real property, £8, 371. Pop. in 1851, 1, 374; in 1861, 1, 522. Houses, 286. The property is divided among a few. Broyle Place is anancient mansion, supposed to have been built by one of the archbishops of Canterbury; but only a portion of itremains. Horse artillery barracks formerly stood near the village; and part of them is now a kennel for the South Down hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £400.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is very ancient, and contains several brasses and numerous monuments. There are a neat Independent chapel, an endowed school with £10 a year, a workhouse school, and charities £21. The hundred contains also four other parishes, and is in the rape of Pevensey. Acres, 11, 221. Pop. 4,034. Houses, 747.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ringmer AP/CP       Ringmer Hundred       Sussex AncC
Place: Ringmer

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