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DIRECTORY.] SUSSEX. MAHEHIELD. 519 and held since 1904 by the Rev. Hector William Grepe Sexton, Frank Collins. M.A. of Pernbnke Colle~e, Cambridge. Dale Park, Wall Letter Box cleared at ILI5 a.m. & 5 p.m.; sun- standing in an extensive and 'well-wooced estate, is the days, u a.m. L"'tters throu~h Arundel arrinJ-afl IY. seat of Charles John FletC'her Psq. D.L., J.P. lord of the a.m. & 2 p.m. The nearest money. order & telegvaph manor and sole landowner. The soil is chalk;. subsoil, office is at Slindon chalk and fi'nt. The chief crops are wheat, barley ~ublic Elementary School (mix~}, built in r86o, for and oa.ts. The area is 1,Bg1 acres; assessable value, 49 children; average attendance, 30; Mrs. Elizabeth £1, r68 ; the population in 1901 was 192. Mary Pierce, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Sawyer Harcourt, Lower farm lSpemeley William, head keeper tJ! Fl.etcher Chas. John D.L., J.P.Dale pk COMMERCIAL. Charles J. Fletcher e.sq. D.L., J.P Grepe Rev. Hector William M.A. Batho Alfred, stud groom . Walters Jane (Miss), dress maker (vicar), Vicnage Smith Clement, resident agent to Woodford Frederick, farm bailiff t~ Majoribanks Miss, Madehnrst lodge Charles J. Fletcher esq. D.L., J.P Charles J. Fletcher e.sq. D.L., J.P MALLING SOUTH, formerly one civil parish, has, and Without, the former being that part of the ollfT under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, parish comprised within the municipal borongh of 1894," been divided into two, respectively named Within Lewes; names of residPnts are all given with that town. H EAST MARDEN is a parish 5 miles north-west from also rector of North Marden. Thomas W. Thorpe Lavant station and 5, miles west from Singleton station I esq. who is lord of the manor, and Capt. Geoffrey? on the Midhurst and Chichester branch of the London, Stanley Phipps Hornby, of Somerton, Somerset, are tha Brighton and South Coast railway, 9 north-west from chief landowners. The soil is chalky marl; subsoil, Chichest'er, and 9 south-east from Petersfield, and is in chalk and flint. The chief crops are wheat, barley and the South Western rlivision of the county, hundred and oats. The boundaries of !the parish were revised in 1BB:t union of Westbourne, rape, petty sessional division and so as to get rid of detached portions, when, by Local cuunty court district of Chichester and in the rural Government Orders, six detached portions of Stoughton de'l.nm·y of WPstbourne and in the ?rchdegconry and were added to East :Marden, and a detached portion of diocese of Chichester. The church of St. Peter, said to East Marden was annexed to Compton; and the area is date from thll 12th century, is of flint in the Early now 938 acres; rateable value, £423; the population in English style, and has a turret containing one bell; it 1901 was 55· was repaired in 1847• and the restoration completed in Parish Clerk Waiter Loten. 1875, and in 1906 a vestry and chamber for beating Po-st Office ..:.:t'ames Reed, sub-postmaster. Lettere via. apparatus were added: there are several inscriptions to Chichester arrive at &.45 a. m. ; dispatched at 5-!5 p.m. members of the Battine family: the c:hurch affords 120 Compton is the nearest money order & telegraph office.u sittings. The register of baptisms and burials cam- 3 miles distant mences in the year 1691 ; marriages 1755. 'I'he living Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1845, ohiefl;F is a rectory, net yearly value £92, with residence and at the cost of the late W. Leyland Woods esq. for 5~ rl acl'es of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Chichester, children ; average attendance, 28 ; & has an endow,1 and held since 1910 by the Rev. George Sadler Hall· ment of £to yearly, bequeathed by the late Miss ~{.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and who is Phipps, of Little Green; Mrs. Alice Baxendale, mist PRIVATE RESIDE~Ts. Hall Rev. George Sadler 1\LA. (vicar), I COMMERCIAL. 'I he Vicarage IDaman Hemy, farm bailiff to Tho~ Aspinall H. E. T'he Battine house . Tho1 pe Thomail W W. Thorpe t>sq NORTH M:ARDEN is a parish about 5 miles south Hornby, and held since rgog by the Rev. George Sad1er from Elsted station (over the hill), on the Midburst Hall 1\LA. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, who is branch of the South Western railway, and 5' miles west also rector of East Marden, where he resides. Capt. from Singleton station on the Midhurst and Chichester Geoffrey Stanley Phipps Hornby, of Somerton, Somerset., branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast rail who i> lord of the manor and the Earl Russell are ths, way, 8 south-east from Petersfield, and 6 south-west sole landowners. The soil is chalky marl; su~soU~ from Midhurst, in the South Western division of the chalk, with Hint. The chief crops ara wheat, ba.rley county, hundred and union of Westbourne, rape, petty and oats. The area is 697 acres of arable, pasture and, sessional division and county court district of Chichester, down land; rateable value, £r6g _o ths population in-, and in the rural deanery of Westbourne and arch 1901 was g. deaconry and diocese of Chichester. The church of St. Parish Clerk, J ames Loten. Mary the Virgin is an ancient Norman structure of Letters via Chichester arrive at 10.30 a. m. The nearest flint and stone, and has· a turret containing one bell: telegraph & money order office is at Harting the church was restored and reseated in r887-B, and Letter Box, at East Marden, cleared at 5· 15 p.m has 70 sittings. There is no register prior to the year 1813- The living is a rectory, net income £74• ~ith 9 The children of this parish attend the school at East acres of glebe, in the gift of Capt. G. S. Phipps M:trden. Svmes• Samuel B. farmer MARDEN WEST, see Upmarden. I M ARE SFIELD is a parish and villag~. on the road 1 :1re those of Messrs. John Dennett and Sons. The PiltJ' from Uckfield to East Grinstead, 2 miles north from Uck down Golf Clnb, consisting of about 130 members, ha& field, 2 from Buxted station on the Tunbridge Wells and links at Piltdown Common. Maresfield Park is half a> Lewes branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast mile north, and e-xtends over 65 acres: the houile~l an railway, 10 north-east from Lewes, 11 south-east from ancient building of brick, in the Elizabethan style, ill East Grinstead, and 41 miles from London, in the North the property and residence of Prince Munster vonlDerne'i ern division of the county, hundred of Rusbmonden, bur{!. Viscount. Gage is lord of the manor. The prin rape of Pevensey, Uckfield petty sessional division and cipal landowners are Prince Miinster van Dernebur!f.T union, county court district of Lewes, and in the rural George Maryon Maryon-Wilson esq. of Fletching, anif deanery of Uckfield, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese Richard James Streatfeild esq. of Uckfield. The soil is of Chichester. The church of St. Bartholomew, a build mould and sand; subsoil, sand and sandstone. The ing of stone of Early English character, with Perpendi chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and hops. cular insertions and additions, was restored and en Area, il,m7 acres, a great portion of which is woods and larged in 1878-9, and has a tower containing a clock forest land, and 25 of water; rateable value, ;[.xo,652;;. and 6 hells : the east window and several others are the population in 1901 was: civil, 2,001; ecclesiastical-. memorials : the eagle lectern, stalls and reading desks 564. are of English oak, elabo:-ately carved: there are 300 Nutley, belonging to this parish, will be found under sittings. The register of baptisms commences in the a separate heading. year 1538; marriages and burials, 1542. The living is a rectory, nPt income £263, with residence and 5 acres of Parish Clerk, Edmund George Baker. glebe, in the gift of the Church Trust Fund. tru~tees, Post, M. 0. & T. OfficP. Charle5 Arthur Wickham, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Algernon Charles Dud sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Uckfield at 6.45 ley Ryder M.A. of St. John's College. Cambridge: the & 1Y.5o a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; dispatched at 10.30 a.m, &' rectQ'Ty hou!\e was rebuilt in 1872. At Woodlands are I.IO, 5 & 7.25 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 6-45 a.m.ir the well-known -and very extensive nurseries and flower dispatched at 11.25 a.m · garden~, belon~ing to the trustees of Messrs. W. Wood Pillar Box, The Budlets, cleared at 10.40 a.m. & 1.20f and Son, and occupying 130 acres. At PILTDOWN 5-Io & 7.40 p.m.; snnday, 11.40 a.m .