In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dallington like this:
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.
Dallington through time
Dallington is now part of Rother district. Click here for graphs and data of how Rother has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dallington itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dallington, in Rother and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8321
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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