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TICEHURST, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Sussex. The village stands on high ground, 3 miles ENE of Ticehurst-Road r. station, and 10 SE of Tunbridge-Wells; presents a clean and pleasant appearance; contains some neat villas; and has a post-office‡ under Hurst-Green, a banking office, two good inns, an ancient church restored in 1857, Calvinist and Wesleyan chapels, a mechanics' institute, national schools, charities £20, and fairs on 4 May and 7 Oct.—The parish comprises 8,202 acres. Real property, £11,325. Pop. in 1861, 2,758; of whom 127 were in the workhouse, and 93 in Highlands lunatic asylum. Houses, 470. Whiligh, Vineyard, Ridgeway, and Pashley House, are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £700.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The p. curacies of Stonegate and Flimwell are separate benefices.—The sub-district includes Burwash, and comprises 15,523 acres. Pop., 4,901. Houses, 892.—The district includes also Salehurst, Wadhurst, and Frant sub-districts; and comprises 51,659 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £9,440. Pop. in 1851, 15,507; in 1861, 14,626. Houses, 2,840. Marriages in 1863, 103; births, 462, of which 44 were illegitimate; deaths, 247,-of which 78 were at ages under 5 years, and 6 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,016; births, 5,244; deaths, 2,891. The places of worship, in 1851, were 10 of the Church of England, with 4,208 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 265 s.; 5 of Baptists, with 990 s.; 6 of Wesleyans, with 958 s.; and 3 undefined, with 572 s. The schools were 12 public day-schools, with 1,718 scholars; 24 private day-schools, with 480 s.; 15 Sunday schools, with 1,885 s.; and 1 evening school for adults, with 42 s.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Ticehurst CP/AP Ticehurst SubD Ticehurst RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Ticehurst |
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