A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WIVELSFIELD, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; 1½ mile NNE of Burgess-Hill r. station, and 4 SE of Cuckfield. It has a post-office under Hurstperpoint. Acres, 3,103. Real property, £3,284. Pop. in 1851, 608; in 1861, 1,162. Houses, 139. The increase of pop. arose from the erection of the Sussex lunatic asylum. The property is subdivided. The lunatic asylum was built in 1857-9, at a cost of nearly £50,000; has annexed to it a neat chapel; and stands on high ground about a mile S of Haywards-Heath r. station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £126. Patron, Miss Jane Tanner. The church is early English. There are a national school, and charities £15.
(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: | Wivelsfield CP/AP/Ch Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Wivelsfield |
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