Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COWFOLD

COWFOLD, a parish in Cuckfield district, Sussex; 2 miles E of West Grinstead r. station, and 6½ WSW of Cuckfield. It has a post office under Horsham. Acres, 4, 458. Real property, £4, 884. Pop., 946. Houses, 167 The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £452. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is perpendicular English, with an earlier chancel; and has a magnificent triple-canopied brass of Nelond, prior of Lewes.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cowfold AP/CP       Cuckfield RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Cowfold

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