Staplefield Common Sussex Family History Guide

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Staplefield Common is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Sussex, created in 1848 from Cuckfield Ancient Parish.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1852

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

STAPLEFIELD-COMMON, a chapelry in Cuckfield parish, Sussex; 4¼ miles NW of Haywards-Heath r. station. It was constituted in 1848; and it has a post-office under Crawley. Pop., 798. Houses, 129. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £70. Patron, the Vicar of Cuckfield. The church was built in 1847. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.

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: Cuckfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Lewes
  • Poor Law Union: Cuckfield
  • Hundred: Buttinghill
  • Province: Canterbury