A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
FOREST-ROW, a hamlet and a chapelry in East Grinstead parish, Sussex. The hamlet adjoins the N side of Ashdown forest, near the Three-Bridges and Tunbridge-Wells railway, 3 miles SE of East Grinstead; and has a post office under East Grinstead, a railway station, and a fair on 8 Nov. The chapelry was constituted in 1850. Pop., 1, 411. Houses, 285. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of East Grinstead. The church is good; and there are chapels for Independents and Baptists, and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | East Grinstead AP/CP Forest Row Ch/Hmlt/CP Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Forest Row |
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