Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLYNDE

GLYNDE, a village and a parish in Lewes district, Sussex. The village stands on an affluent of the river Ouse, adjacent to the Lewes and Hastings railway, 3 miles ESE of Lewes; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Lewes. The parish comprises 1, 569 acres. Real property, £2, 067; of which £85 are in quarries. Pop., 321. Houses, 35. The property is divided among a few. Glynde Place, a Tudor mansion, is the seat of the Hon. H. Brand; and Glynde-Bourne is the seat of W. L. Christie, Esq. Mount Caburn, within the parish, has on its summit an ancient circular entrenchment, and was the subject of a poem by William Hay, who lived in last century, and wrote a number of works on various topics. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £132.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The church is in the Grecian style; was built, in 1765, by Richard Trevor, bishop of Durham; and has, over its portico, the arms of the see of Durham, impaling those of the Trevors. An obelisk stands in the churchyard, to the memory of two sons of Sir D. Wedderburn; and has an inscription by Mrs. Hemans. There is a national school; and Hay's charity for the poor has £422 a year.


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

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Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Glynde AP/CP       Sussex AncC
Place: Glynde

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