Hadlow Down Sussex Family History Guide

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Hadlow Down is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1837 from a chapelry in Buxted Ancient Parish and Mayfield Ancient Parish.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1836
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1836

Nonconformists include:  Particular Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HADLOW DOWN, a hamlet in Mayfield parish, and a chapelry in Mayfield and Buxted parishes, Sussex. The hamlet lies 3¾ miles SW by W of Mayfield, and 4½ NE of Uckfield r. station; and has a post office under Uckfield. The chapelry was constituted in 1837. Pop., 981. Houses, 191. Pop. of the Mayfield portion, 605. Houses, 118. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £126. Patron, alternately the Rector of Buxted and the Vicar of Mayfield. There is a Baptist chapel.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

  • County: Sussex
  • Civil Registration District: Uckfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Exempt Deanery of South Malling
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Pre-1846 – None, 1846-1858 – South Malling
  • Poor Law Union: Uckfield
  • Hundred: Loxfield Dorset; Loxfield Pelham
  • Province: Canterbury