CHIDDINGLY, or Chittingleioh, a parish in Hailsham district, Sussex; 4 ½ miles NW of Hailsham town and r. station. It has a post-office under Hurst Green. Acres, 4,297. Real property, £4,922. Pop., 992. Houses, 199. The property is much subdivided. Chiddingly Place, once the seat of the Jefferays, was a very large Tudor mansion, but is now a fragmentary ruin. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £158. Patron, the Dowager Countess Amherst. The church is chiefly early English; but has a lofty steeple of later date, seemingly decorated English; and it contains a stately monument of Chief Baron Sir John Jefferay. Charities, £12.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
