Waldron Sussex Family History Guide
Waldron is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Other places in the parish include: Cross in Hand and Horam.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1564
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1605
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WALDRON, a parish in Uckfield district, Sussex; 5½ miles ESE of Uckfield r. station. It has a post-office under Hurst-Green; and it contains Cross-in-Hand, which has an inn and two fairs. Acres, 6,218. Real property, £4,890. Pop., 1,132. Houses, 204. The manors belong to the Earl of Chichester and Louis Huth, Esq. Horeham, Tanners, and Popingworth were formerly fine mansions, and are now farm-houses; but a noble residence has lately been built on the Popingworth estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £455. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1862; and another church built in 1863, at Cross-in-Hand. There are a Wesleyan chapel and two parochial schools.
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: Uckfield
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Pevensey
- Poor Law Union: Uckfield
- Hundred: Shiplake
- Province: Canterbury