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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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SALEHURST, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Ticehurst district, Sussex. The village stands on the river Rother, 1½ mile N E of Robertsbridge r. station, and 5½ N of Battle; and has a post-office under Hurst-Green. The parish contains also the hamlets of Robertsbridge and Hurst-Green, and comprises 6, 461 acres. Real property, £10, 654. Pop. in 1851, 2, 191; in 1861, 2,014. Houses, 434. The property is much subdivided. Iridge Place is the seat of Henry Micklethwait, Esq. Silver Hill is a precipitous eminence, commanding an extensiveview. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £625.* Patron,Hardy, Esq. The church is early English, and was recently restored. There are chapels for Calvinists and Wesleyans, an endowed national school with £16 a year, and charities £31.—The sub-district contains also two other parishes. Acres, 11, 827. Pop., 3, 181. Houses, 651.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Salehurst AP/CP Salehurst SubD Ticehurst RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Salehurst |
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