Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CLIFFE, or Cliffe-by-Lewes, or St. Thomas-in-the-Cliffe

CLIFFE, or Cliffe-by-Lewes, or St. Thomas-in-the-Cliffe, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; adjacent to the river Ouse and the South Coast railway, in the eastern vicinity of Lewes. Post town, Lewes. Acres, with Lewes borough. Rated property, £4, 371. Pop., 1, 568. Houses, 290. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £130. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is good; and there is a workhouse.


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

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Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place names: CLIFFE     |     CLIFFE BY LEWES     |     CLIFFE OR CLIFFE BY LEWES OR ST THOMAS IN THE CLIFFE     |     ST THOMAS IN THE CLIFFE
Place: Cliffe

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