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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Crowborough like this:
CROWBOROUGH CROSS, a place at the south-west side of Crowborough Beacon, in Sussex, 3 miles WSW of Rotherfield. It has a post office under Tunbridge Wells, and a fair on 25 April.
Crowborough is now part of WEALDEN District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEALDEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Crowborough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Crowborough, in Wealden and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8319
Date accessed: 14th November 2025
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