Bexhill St Peter, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex

Parish History
Bexhill St Peter is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.Other places in the parish include: Liberty of the Sluice.

BEXHILL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Battle, hundred of Bexhill, rape of Hastings, E.division of Sussex, 8 miles (S.) from Battle; containing 1916 inhabitants. It is bounded on the south by the English Channel, and comprises 6000 acres by computation; the surface is pleasingly varied, and in the northern parts richly embellished with wood; about70 acres are planted with hops. The village, which is situated on an eminence, commands extensive prospects;and the coast road from Dovor, by way of Hastings and St. Leonard's, to Brighton, passes through it. Here also is a station of the Hastings and Brighton railway.The living is a vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes, and valued in the king's books at £24. 10. 2½.;net income, £977: patron, the Bishop of Chichester.The church is an ancient cruciform structure, partly in the early and partly in the later English style, with a low embattled tower. A chapel of ease has been erected on Little Common, and there is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Sir Richard de la Wyche, 13th bishop of Chichester, died here. There are several chalybeate springs.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 228-233. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50796 Date accessed: 01 May 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Battle Poor Law Union,Sussex

Probate records
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