Salehurst Sussex Family History Guide

Salehurst is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Robertsbridge, Hurst Green, and Rotherbridge.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1575
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Calvinist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

• Ticehurst
• Bodiam
• Burwash
• Brightling
• Whatlington
• Hawkhurst
• Sandhurst Kent
• Mountfield
• Etchingham
• Ewhurst
• Hawkhurst Kent

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SALEHURST, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Ticehurst district, Sussex. The village stands on the river Rother, 1½ mile N E of Robertsbridge r. station, and 5½ N of Battle; and has a post-office under Hurst-Green. The parish contains also the hamlets of Robertsbridge and Hurst-Green, and comprises 6,461 acres. Real property, £10,654. Pop. in 1851, 2,191; in 1861, 2,014. Houses, 434. The property is much subdivided.

Iridge Place is the seat of Henry Micklethwait, Esq. Silver Hill is a precipitous eminence, commanding an extensive view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £625. Patron, Hardy, Esq. The church is early English, and was recently restored. There are chapels for Calvinists and Wesleyans, an endowed national school with £16 a year, and charities £31.

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

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

• County: Sussex
• Civil Registration District: Ticehurst
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
• Diocese: Chichester
• Rural Deanery: Dallington
• Poor Law Union: Ticehurst
• Hundred: Henhurst
• Province: Canterbury