DIRECrORY.) SUSSEX. BAILSHAM • 349 • Services are hel:d! in 'the Parish church on sundays at Natioool (m'ixed I& infambt), Five .A.shlll9, built in 1872, for il & 11 a.m. & 3 k 6.30 p.m. ; holy communion every 120 children; average attendance, 101 ; Samuel Hock­ week day at 7.15 ID..m ing, ma.ster; Mrs. Mary Ea,stwuod, in.fa.nts' mistren HADLOW DOWN. Hartfield Andrew, farmer, Broadreed FIVE ASS:ES. Henton George, farmer, Waghoms Capel-Cu.re Denzil, Stocllya.rd Brodie Geo. Barnett M.D. Hadlow ho Histed Thomaso, boot repairer Leadam Wm. Ward M.D. Stonehurst Donkin Henry, Gate house Hoath David, farmer, Stockland& Lloyd Edward, Skippers hill Dnndonald Dowager Countess of, Hoath JIUDes, farmer, Hastingford Taylor Mrs. Summer HiH house Kylesbrae Locke L'ha.rles, shoe maker .Allcorn Fdk. frmr. Huggstt'& furnace Harmer Philip Henry, South Beacon Ma.rkwick .John, tailor & New inn Heal Samuel, fa.rmer, Old Cronch Huggins Cha.s. Lang, Hadlow grange Noakes Wil:iam, farmer Collins George Joseph, builder, hoWJe Huggins Mrs. Buxted lodge Peckham Henry, butcher decorator, wheelwright. car1l &; Monckton Richard V a use, Lit.Hadlow I Pecliham Richard, cattle dealer wagm1 builder & coach painter Pott Stanley, HowbGurne jPott SW.nley, farmer, Howbourne Dadswell Eli Napthali, miller (water), Warner Rev. Jn. A:lan, The Vicarage Sinden Elijah & Son, nurser_vmen; Huggett's furnace ornamental & fruit trees, shrubs &c. Humphrey Jabez, farm bailiff to :Mr&.. COMMERCIAL. Oornwell's nurseries. (PO!rt.al 11d- Taylor Allcorn William, fanner, Pig's foot dress, Blackboys, Hawkhurst) Muddle John, farmer, Oriers farm ABhdown Henry & Ebenezer, bakers Smith Alfd. Ernest. baker & coal mer Petitt William, Five Ashes P.H Blackman Thos. farmer, Dudsland frm Smith George, farmer, Loudwell Rich Albert Hy. farmer, .Judge's frm Bodkin Charles, grocer & draper Smith John Preston, builder Stapeley John, farmer, Hadlow farm Bracher Goorge, blacksmith & farmer Vine James, farmer, Spood's farm Thomas William, far.uer, lnwoc·d;; Borfield Horace, grocr. & drpr.Post uff Wickens David, farmer, Five Chimneys Tobitt; Amos. grocer, draper & generol Hartfield Amos, farmer, Brick Kiln fm Winter James, farmer stores. Post office HAILSH AM is a market and union town and head an Early English vaulted passage and a cellarar of a petty sessional division, and a paris>h, situated nea.r of two bayB. the river Cuckmere and on the road to Eastbourne, with The tawn is within the Duc'hy ol Lancaster. Llll'd a station on the Brighton and South Coast railway and Sackville is lord (}f 'the manor of Midh.e!ham Parkgate the branch line to Tunbridge Wells, 54 miles from Lorr and Co.t Morgan D. "rreherne (ret.) is lord of the m&DOrl dton, 13 west froon Lewes, 14 south-west from Battle and oi Down Ash and Bowley. The principal la.ndownert 7 north from Eastbourne, ·in the Southern division of are the Dulre of Devonshire K.G., P.C. the Earl ol • the county, DiU hundred, Pevensey rape, Lewes county Chichester, Carew Davie<S Gilbert e.sq. of the Manor court district, rural deanery of Pevensey (first division), House, Eas'tbourne, and Sir Jamea Duke b&rt. of Laugh­ archd!eaconry of Lewes 8llld diocese of Chichester. The ton. The -area is 5,330 acres; rateable value, £18,052; town is lighted! with gas lby tihe IHailsham Ga.s Co. the population in 1891 was 3,369. Limited and supplied ;witlh water ·by the Hailsham Water Works Co. incorporated in 1885; the pumping POLEGATE is a hamlet 3t miles south, the largest stBtion is at Amberst-one gate, whence the water is pa.rt of which is in this pa.rish, and includes the junction forced to the reservoir at Carter'~t C(~rner, about 2 miles sta.tion of ·the Brighton and South Coa.st railway, of the from the town and holding ISO,ooo gallons. lines of railway to Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells on The church of St. Mary the Virgin is of stone, prin­ the north and to Ea-stbourne on the southern side. The cipally in the Perpendicular style, and has a tower contain­ church of St. John, a. chapel of ease t{) HailMiam ing a clock oand 8 bells : the curfew bell is still rung here : church, and built in 1876, at a cost of £2,700, is of Kent­ the south aisle was restored in 1870, the north chantry in ish rag, in the Gothic style, and has a tower with spire 1878, and the nave in IBBg, at a cost of £1,451: there containing one bell : the east window is stained, and there are 470 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. are 270 sittings. The Rev. J·amea Thom841 Taylor M.A. The living is a vicarage, net income (1898) £so, with re­ of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, has been curate in charge sidencB, in the gift of the trustees of the late Thomas since 1895· She~ppard esq. and bel'd' since 1872 lby the Rev. Francis Down Ash, a mile and a. half south-east; Harbreating, O.yde Harvey M.A. Trinity College, Oambridg-e. The I mile north ; Horse Eye, 2 miles east ; Summer Hill. missi{)n room at 1\f.agha.m Down, attached to St. Ma.ry'.s 1! miles south; Ersham, half a mile south, and Ma.g­ church, w-as erected in 18go, at a cost of £2oo. The ham Down, If miles north-east, are places in the parish. Church Room, erected in 1895• on a free site, at a total Post, M. 0. & T. 0.,_ T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel cost of over £700, is used for the Sunday school, and for Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway Sub­ recreation and social l!lltherings, under the superinten­ Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Sussex added).­ dence of the vicar. There are Wesleyan and Baptist Thos. Snashall postmaster. Letters arrive at 5 & 10.30 chapels. The Cemetery, south of the town, adjoining the a.m. & 1 & 6.10 p.m.; delivered at 6.30 a.m. & 1.30& 6.30 road to Eastbourne, contains 4 acres, and was opened in p.m. ; dispatched at 8.25 & II-45 a..m. & 2.45, 7.20 & 1872, at a total cost of abont £1,500, and has two mortuary 8.20 p.m. ; box cleared at 8.25 & 11.45 a..m. & 2.45, chapels ; it is under the control of the Parish Council. 7.20 & 8.20 p.m 'The County Police Court, High street, was erected Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel in 1861. The manufacture of rope, twine, mats and POBt, 1S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, PolegQte matting is carried on there to a considerable extent, ('Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Sus­ the principal manufactory being that of Messrs. Burfield sex added). Mrs. E. A. Newing, sub-postmistress. and Son, giving employment to about 150 hands. Letters arrive a.t 5·30 a.m. & 10.47 p.m.; dispatched a.t The cattle and sheep market is one of the largest 6 a..m. & 12, 3.25 & 9 p.m in the county; it occupies three acres at the Post Office, Magham Down.-Richard Miller, sub-post­ ent:nmce to the !town on its south ~Side and ie inclosed master. Letters arnve from Hailsham R.S.O. at 7 within a brick wall; . t!he market .i~ held on alternate a.m. ; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 7.20 p.m. &; sundays, Wedrl'l'sdays. The No. 5 Gllrrison Company of the 2nd arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 12.10 p.m. Postal orders Smsex Artil!ery Vo1unteers b~~~ove their head quarters in are issued here, but not paid. Hailsham is the nearest the town. The public recreation ground of 6 ~res was money order &; telegraph office formed in IBS.'i· The Hooper !bequest, left by 'Mrs. E. Wall Letter :Hox at Hailsham st-ation, cleared week Hooper, of Hailsham, in 18go, now consists of £645 Con. days II.30 a.m. & 6.30 & 7·45 p.m.; sundayB, sola, and is devoted to the support of the ~ ational sc'l!ool 7-4.5 p.m "Bnd to the purchase of blankets for the poor ; Wm. Slye, of Wan Box, Polegate station, cleared at 11.40 a.m. & 7.30 f'llil)sjham. bequeathed: £6-:ri for the benefit of the school; p.m.; sundays, 2.40 & 8.30 p.m Ou!.rles S'iye's bequest of £100 for a clothing club in connection with the church snd school i~r n{)W repre­ OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE HATI..SHAM sented by £xo5 in 2l per Cenb. PETTY .SESSIONAL DIVISION. At Otham was a '1"61iigious lhouse of rthe Premoru;tra.­ tensian order, founded in the reign of Henry II. and dedi­ Cnrteis Herbert esq. Windmill Hill Place, Wartling, Hails­ cated to SS. Mary and Lawrence; portions of tbe w111ls ham, chairman are atill to be traced. Micheiham Priory on the river Alexander William Cleverly esq. Heathfield park, Heathfield Cuckmere, near here, was founded in the 16th Henrv Ill. Station Road S. 0 (123X-2) for canons of the Augustine order, and dedicated Back Alfred esq. Bocksteep manor, Dallington S.O to the Holy Trinity ; the remaining buildings, now partly Dent Sir A]frnd K.C.M.G. Ravensworth. Eastbourne used u a fumhouse, comprise a bridge of eight arches, Dunn John Roberts esq. D.L.. Stone honse, Warbleton, which spans the moat, the refectory, • lavatory, Hawkhurst .