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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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MALLING (SOUTH), a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; on the river Ouse and on the Lewes branch of the London and Brighton railway, partly within Lewes borough, on the N side of Lewes. Post town, LewesAcres, 2,689. Rated property, £4,870. Pop., 716. Houses, 125. Pop. of the part within L. borough, 499. Houses, 92. A collegiate establishment, for a dean, a chancellor, a precentor, a penitentiary, a sacristan, and a clerk, all prebendaries, anciently stood here; was given, at the dissolution, to Sir Thomas Palmer; and came to be represented by a mansion called the Deanery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £150. Patron, G.Courthope, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1628; succeeded one of the 7th century, founded by Ceadwalla, king of the West Saxons; was repaired in 1837; and contains an altar-tomb to Sir W. Kemp. Eight persons were killed by a snow avalanche, from a hill within the parish, in Dec. 1836.
(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: | South Malling CP/AP Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | MALLING | MALLING SOUTH | SOUTH MALLING |
| Place: | South Malling |
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