Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FLIMWELL

FLIMWELL, a hamlet in Ticehurst parish, and a chapelry in Ticehurst, Etchingham, and Hawkhurst parishes, Sussex. The hamlet lies 2 miles ENE of Ticehurst village, and 3½ N of Etchingham r. station; and has a post office under Hurst-Green. The chapelry was constituted in 1841. Pop., 811. Houses, 146. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £130.* Patron, the Bishop of Chichester.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ticehurst CP/AP       Sussex AncC
Place: Flimwell

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