Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PEASEMARSH

PEASEMARSH, a village and a parish in Rye district, Sussex. The village stands 3 miles N W of Rye r.station; and has a post-office under Staplehurst, and afair on 1 June. The parish comprises 3, 718 acres. Real property, £5, 999; of which £15 are in quarries. Pop., 906. Houses, 194. P. Place is the seat of H. M. Curteis, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £261.* Patron, Sidney-Sussex college, Cambridge. The church stands in a well-wooded park, about a mile from the village; is Norman and early English; and was recently restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £16.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rye RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Peasmarsh

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