Iford Sussex Family History Guide
Iford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1654
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Lewes St John the Baptist, Southover
- South Malling
- Rottingdean
- Ovingdean
- Rodmell
- Kingston near Lewes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
IFORD, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; near the river Ouse, under the Downs, 2 ½ miles S by W of Lewes r. station. It has a post office under Lewes. Acres, 2, 173. Real property, £2, 538. Pop., 167. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. The manor house and the great tithes belong to the Rosseters.
The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Kingston-near-Lewes, in the diocese of Chichester. Valne, £343. Patron, Rev. T. Bedford. The church is Norman and early English, and was lately restored; and has a low square central tower, with shingled spire.
Swanborough, ½ a mile NW of the church, is an old farmhouse, with considerable remains of early English and early perpendicular architecture; includes a quondam chapel; and was a grange of the priory of St. Pancras, Lewes.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- Place: Iford
- County: Sussex
- Civil Registration District: Lewes
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Lewes
- Poor Law Union: Newhaven
- Hundred: Swanborough (Sussex)