EWHU:U~T • SUSSEX .. • (KELLY's .,1 • ..lli. WALL LETTER Box at Gate farm, cleared at 5·45 p.m. & on Wesleyan (mixed), Staplecross, erected in 18471 for 200 sundays at 9,40 a.m children; average attendance, 127; Charles William Dyer, master~ Mrs. Dyer, mistress WALL LETTER Box at Crips's corner, c:dared at 5.40 p.m.; CARRIERS TO ;- sun days at . a. m RoBERTSBRIDGE-J as. Smith, every fri. returning same day 9 40 HASTINGs-Nelson Baker, every tues. thurs. & sat. return­ ing same day SCHOOLS:- . RYE-Nelson Baker, every wed National (mixed), EwhurstGreen,for7ochildren; average BATTLE-York & Son, tues. & sat attendance, so; Thomas Poulton, master HASTINGS-York & Son, mon. wed. & fri Ewhurst. Gurr Edwd. watch maker, Ewhurst gn Wheelwright Miss, Rose cottage Hartnup Thos. White Hart P.H. & farmer Boudier Rev. George .John M. A. Rectory, COMMERCIAL. Ewhurst green Hilder John, farmer, Sparks · ·Cramp Edmund, Beacon house Hyland Obed, shopkpr. Cripp's corner Crouch J<'rederick, grocer & draper Curtis Georg-e Byron, Ockham house Mannington Augustus, farmer & hop Crouch William, baker Mannington Isaac, Court lodge grower, New house Funnell Ellen (Mrs ), blacksmith Thompson Ralph K. Lordine Mannington Charles, farmer & hop Gilbert Mary A. (Mrs.), grcr. Post office grower, Shoreham & Pudgeham Goodsell Wm. thrashing machine owner COMMERCIAL. Manningtonlsaac, farmer & hop grower, Barman J ames, boot & shoe maker Buck well John, farmer, Boyce's farm Ewhurst green Hartnup Thomas, jun. butcher Byner James, farmer, Edgington Noakes Jonathan, farmer, Wrens farm Hilder Thomas, farmer, Spilstead Cane John, farmer, Gate farm Piper William, carpenter Moon Samuel, miller {wind) Clapson Jan:es, farmer, Stockwood Smith Allen, rope maker & tax collP,ctor, Piper Thomas, carpenter Clifford William Alfred M.R.C.v.s. Ewhurst green Richardson Gilbert Henry, baker veterinary surgeon, Cripp's corner Tedham William, wheelwright & car­ Rootes Stephen, Cross inn Cook William; grocer & draper, Post venter, Ewhurst green Russell John, farmer, Wattel farm office, Ewhurst green Wood John, Castle inn, & blacksmith, Sellman Aaron, farmer & brick maker Cramp Edwin, farmer, Ellen hall Ewhurst green Tappenden Richard, harness maker Dawes Thomas, farmer, Soggs Vincent James, butcher Faulkener Jn. Edmd. frmr. Sempstead Staplecross. Weller Reuben, wheelwi-ight Godding James, beer retailer Truman Rev. Francis [Wesleyanl F AIRLIGHT is a parish situated on the coast, 3 miles spacious modern stone mansion in the Early Tudor style, east from Hastings, in the Eastern division of the county, situated in fine park-like grounds, and commanding ex­ Hastings petty sessional division, union, rape and county tensive land and sea views. Fairlight Lodge is the resi­ court district, Guestling hundred, rural deanery of Hastings dence of His Honor Judge Martineau M.A., J.P. William (first division), archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chi- Lucas-Shadwell esq. J.P. is lord of the manor of French chaster. The church of St. Andrew was erected in place of Court. There is no manor of Fairlight. William Lucas­ the old church, removed in 1845; the first stone was laid Shad well esq. J.P. and E. H. Sayer-Millward esq. are the May 19th in that year, by the late Sarah, Countess Walde- largest landowners. The soil is sandy loam and clay; sub­ grave ; it occupies an elevated site and is a building of stone 1 soil, sandstone and clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, in the later Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave hops, barley, peas, beans and pasturage. The area is 2,899 'of three bays, north aisle, south porch, vestry and an em- acres of land and 410 water; rateable value, {,2,996; the battled tower so feet in height at the west end of the north population in 1881 was 482. aisle, containing one bell : there are several stained windows STONELYNlt is I mile north-east; MARSHAM, a mile and a and 365 sittings. The register dates from the year 165I. half north-east; STRAw's CASTLE, a mile and a half east; The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £5371 with resi- MALLYDAME 1 1 mile north. dance, in the gift of and held since 1857 by the Rev. Henry Parish Clerk and Sexton, John Fellows. Stent M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Here are coastguard PILLAR LETTER Box cleared at 9 a.m. & 2 p.m. Letters stations. This place is much frequented during the summer through Hastings arrive between 7 & 9 a. m. The nearest months by visitors from Hastings-the Dripping Well, money order, savings bank & telegraph office is at Ore Lover's Seat and Ecclesbourne Valley being among the places usually visited : the Lover's Seat, to which a legend is at­ National School (mixed), built about 185o, for So children; tached, is in the cliffs facing the sea; Ecclesbourne Valley is average attendance, 66; John Andrews, master; Miss M. noted for its ferns. Fairlight Down is a portion of the first J. Bradford, mistress Tidge and affords magnificent sea views. The Hall, the CARRIER.-Robert Ramsay, to Hastings, every day (wed. property of William Lucas-Shadwell esq. J.P. is a noble and excepted); to Rye, wed. (market day) every fortnight • .Andrews John, School house Andrews William, carpenter, Hole farm Fuller Henry, farmer, Marsham farm .Ball Edmund Charles, Down lodge Barden Amos & Abraham, blacksmiths Furlonger William, head gardener to Horsefall Alexander M. Gawthorpe ho Barden Thomas, wheelwright W. Lucas-Shadwell esq. J.P Lucas-Shadwell Mrs. Woodcote . Buffard Joseph, farmer, Winterstowe Gallop George, dairy farmer, Down frm Lucas-Shadwell Wm. J.P. Warren farm Colegate Albert John, milk retailer HarmanMary(Mrs. ),milk ret. Church ho .Martineau Alfred His Honor Judge Cooper John, dairy farmer, The J<'irs Hopper Percy Mortimer, farmer, Fish- M.A., J.P. Fairlight lodge Divall James, farmtlr, Waite's farm ponds farm Rhodes The :Misses, Fairlight place Fellows John, cowkeeper & dairyman, Message Stphn. farmer, Tile Kiln farm Smallfield Mrs. Carlton cottage Church house Payne David, dairy farmer, Stoneylynk Stent Rev. Henry M.A. Vicarage Field Alfred, farmer & dairy farmer, Ramsay Robert, carrier & grocer • COMMERCIAL. , Cherry Garden & W akeham~ farms Saxby James, farmer, Chisholm's farm Andrews William, jun. assistant over- Field Thomas, farmer & dairy farmer, Thorpe J<'rederick, farmer & dairy seer, Hole farm Lower Stoneylynk farmer, New Barn farm . F ALMER is a parish with a stat.ion, 54! miles from owner. The soil is chalky loam; subsoil, chalk. 'i'he London and 4 north-east from Brighton, in the Mid division chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and a considerable quan· of the county, Younsmere hundred, Lewes rape, petty ses­ tity of mangold, turnip and rape and pasture. The area is sional division and county court district, Newhaven union, 4,523 acres; rateable value, £5,465; the population in 1881 rural deanery of Lewes (firs~ division), archdeaconry of was 577· .Lewes and diocese of Chichester, The Erighton and Hast­ iBoLMER consists of a farmhouse and a few cottages, I mile ings branch railway passes through a tunnel here, 200 north-east; HdusEDEAN 1 r mile east~ BEVENDEAN, ~miles yards in length, at the end of which there ill a station. The south•west. ' church (name unknown), rebuilt in 18171 is a small building Sexton, George Diploch. of flint in the Norman style, consisting of chancel and nave and an embattled western tower containing one bell: the en­ PosT & M. d. (>., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ trance is through the base of the tower : there are 230 sit­ Miss Carolina Mitchell, l'eceiver. Letters are received tings, 170 being jree. The regist&rdate8 from the year 1649. .through Lewes; arrive at 8 a. m.; dispatched at 5·3op.m.; The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Stanmer, Sundays, arrive 8 a.m. i dispatched 9·45 a.m. The tele­ average tithe rent-charge £360, joint gross yearly value graph office is at the railway station, also a WALL LETTER Box,-pleared at 1.45 & 7.20 p.m £373~ with residence and glebet let for £141 in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl of Chichester hrochial School (mixed), built in 1837 & enlarged in ;~:887 1 alternately, and held since 1858 by the Rev. Charles George for 164 children; average attendance, ~oi i Charles Row­ Torrington Barlow M .A. of BaUiol College, Oxford. There is Hmd, master ; Miss' Annie AppS, mistress a charity of £6 48· 4d. yearly for educational purposes. The Railway Station, .loseph Thomas Atherfold, station master Earl of Chichester is lord of the manor and principal land- CARRIERS pass through daily from Lewes to Brighton .