Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mayfield

Mayfield, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Sussex, 2½ miles SE. of Rotherfield by rail and 7½ miles S. of Tunbridge Wells, 13,668 ac., pop. 2912; P.O., T.O.; at Mayfield is a conventual establishment, erected (1866) by the Duchess of Leeds; also remains of a palace of the archbishops of Canterbury, in which are the relics of St Dunstan.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Mayfield AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place: Mayfield

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