Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOXWOOD, or LOXWOOD-END

LOXWOOD, or LOXWOOD-END, a hamlet in Wisborough-Green parish, Sussex; on an affluent of the river Arun, and on the Arun and Wye canal, 8 miles W by N of Horsham r. station. It has a post office, of the name of Loxwood, under Horsham, and a fair on 6 May; it is a resort of sportsmen; and it has a chapel of ease, and ranks as a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Wisborough-Green, in the diocese of Chichester. Pop., 218.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wisborough Green AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place names: LOXWOOD     |     LOXWOOD END     |     LOXWOOD OR LOXWOOD END
Place: Loxwood

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