Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DALLINGTON

DALLINGTON, a parish in Battle district, Sussex; 5½ miles SW of Etchingham r. station, and 6 NW of Battle. It has a post office under Hurst-Green. Acres, 2, 873. Real property, £2, 572. Pop., 591. Houses, 113. The property is divided among a few. The area was once part of the Great Forest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £182.* Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is good; and its tower commands a grand view. Sir Joseph Jekyll was a native.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dallington CP/AP       Battle RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Dallington

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