DIRECTORY.] • SUSSEX. EWHURST. 21 'i 5 p Jennings James William, Railway inn, Nye Alfred George, farmer Turner Wm. & Son, timber mers.Station Eridge station Pain John Kirby, farmer & corn mer Turner William, blacksmith Luck Frances (Mrs.), farmer, Sandhill Piddlesden Jacob, grocer, Post office Weston Luke, Nevill Cross & Gun P.K Macbean George Evan, land steward to Pratt Thomas, farmer, Hamsell farm Wickens Nelson, corn & coal factor the Marquess of Abergavenny x G. Summers William, farmer, Birchden Wickens William, grocer The Cottage Swift George, farmer Williamson Andrew, fa.rm bailiff to the Midmore Levi, farmer & shopkeeper, Taylor George, farmer, Copyhold farm Marquess of Abergavenny x.G Park corner Thomas George, farmer, Spratsbrook ETOHINGHAM(orEchinham)isaparishwithstation formation. The chief crops are hops. The area is 3,750 on the Hastings and Tonbridge branch of.the South Eastern acres ; rateable value, £6,324 ; in 188.1 the population was railway, 48 miles from Lonrlon and 14 miles north-west froni CJOi· Hastings, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred ()f' POST OFFICE {Sub-Office. Letters should have s.o. Sussex Henhurst, Burwasb petty sessional division, Ticehurstunion~ added).- William Lawrence Cox, receiver. Letters Hastings rape and county court district, rural deanery ()f arrive every morning at2.I2 & I0.40 a. m. ; dispatched at Dallington, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of ChiChester. 11.45 a. m. & 9·45 p.m.; & sundays arrive 7 a. m. & dis- The river Rother flows north of the parish, and a tributary patched 9·45 p.m. The nearest money order office is at called the Dudwell runs past the rectory and joins the main Hurst Green & telegraph oftice at the Railway station stream at the station. The church of SS. Mary and Nicholas Burst Green is a hamlet 1 mile north-east from Etch- is an ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Perpen- ingham station, partly in Etchingham parish and partly in dicular styles, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of Salehurst parish. Petty sessions for the Burwash division four bays, aisles, south porch and a large central tower, oc- fare held at the George hotel on the last Wednesday in each · cnpying the whole width of the nave and containing one bell: month; for the list of magistrates and places see Burwash. the chancel still retains its ancient stalls and screen, with their The church of the Holy Trinity is an edifice of red ltrick in delicate 14th century enrichments : there are memorial the Early English style, and consists of chancel and nave, brasses to the members of the Echingham family and three sonth porch an<J. a western bell turret containing one bell : it stained windows: the church was restored in 1857, and has. was erected in 1884 at a cost of l:~.ooo and has a small 420 sittings, of whiclrtwo-thirds are free. The register dates yearly endowment of £30: there are sittings for lii50 persons: .from the year I561. The living is a rectory, average tithe the rector of Etchingham officiates. Iridge ia the seat of the rent-charge £554, net yearly value £sr8, with 18 acres or t Rev. John Sumner Gibson M. A. • glebe land and house, in the gift of the Rev. David Lamplngh Sexton, George Jones. M.A. vicar of Yalding, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Alfred PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office, Barrett Lamplugh B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge. This (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O.Sussexadded),Hurst parish gave its name to the baronial family. of E;chingham, Green.-John Sands, postmaster. Letters arrive at 2 & hereditary seneschals of the rape of Hastings, some of whom 10 a.m. & from London at 11.30 a.m.; dispatched to are. buried here arid other~t at Battle. About a mile from Hawkhurst 11.30 a. m. & 11 p.m. & to Tonbridge 9·45 a. m. Etchingham are the remains of an old Roman camp. Hare- & 6.15 p.m. The box closes for all parts at u p.m mere Hall, the residenc,e of Thomas Russell esq. contains ScHOOLS:- some curious oak carvings; it was once a picturesque Tudor National, Etchingham, erected in 186x, enlarged in I884, house, built in x6z6, but has been modernised. The Earl of for 140 children ; average attendane, I04 ; William Henry Chichester is lord of the manor. The principallandownersare Powell, master; Miss Chambers, mistress the trustees of the lateNathan Wetherellesq. GeorgeBurrow National (mixed), Hurst Green, for Ill children; ave~ Gregory esq. Thomas Russell esq. and the Rev. W~ .H. Eley attendance, 102 ; Mrs. Sarah Jane Stewart, mistress LL.:P. The soil is close ; subsoil, clay and Hastings sands Railway Station, George Thwaite~, station master Etchingham. Pierson Thomas Edwin, farmer & hop Croft George, Old Bull inn Barton Huniphrey Conwell, Sho;swell grower, Court Lodge DanielsJoseph&; Thomas, wheelwrights manor H G Gasson Hy. baker & earthenware dealer urst reen. Hartnup William, engineer Eley Rev. William Henry LL.U Adams John, Hatton house Hatcher James, farmer, Swiftsden R118S81l Thomas, Haremere haU Watson James, Myskins Carter William Orme J.P. The Lodge Hayler Stephen, shopkeeper Fitzgerald Mrs. Burnhurstlodge Mills William, grocer COMME~C,IAL, Gibson Rev. John Sumner K.A. !ridge Oakley Albert, engineer Barton Humphrey Conwell, farmer & Lamplugh Rev. Alfred Barrett B.A. Rummery Henry, shopkeeper hop grower, Shoyswell manor [rector], The Cottage Russell Ephraim, plumber Croft Edward, bricklayer OOMMEBCIAL. Sanders Ann (Miss), fancy repository Croft Harry, Station Commercial hotel, Adams Jn. wine, spirit, beer & hop mer Sands John, stationer, Post office fly proprietor & coal merchant Allen & Verner~ veterinary surgeons, Southwell William, Queen's Head P.s: Cox Wm. Lawrence, gro. &drpr.Post off Jacob's well Stevenson Alfred Thomas, greengrocer Ellis William, temperance hotel, fly Baldock George, tailor _ Taylor & Hoar, surgeons proprietor & lock-up coach house Baldock William, carpenter Taylor Newton William, relieving & Ellis W. & Son, monumental & gene- Ball John, baker - vaccination officer No. Q district, & ral masons Barling J ames William, grocer & draper registrar of births for Salehurst & Gasson Thomas, farmer Beeson Thomas, George hotel Ticehurst sub-district, Pentwood bo Gillett Geo. farmer, Church Ho. farm Bishop Thos. beer retailer, Swiftsden Tester George, painter Gillett Jn.(exors.of), fmrs. Willard's hill Blinks Albert, butcher & farmer Tester James, jun. blacksmith NewingtonJas.farmer.Cindel' Bank frm Bntton John, nurseryman TobittSamuel, Woolpack P.s: Noakes Henry J. farmer Chambers William, cabinet maker Whybourn Edwd.Kennrd. grcr. & drapr Osborne William, farmer, Frontbridg& Chatfield Eli, watch maker Worsley William, boot & shoe maker EWHURST is a village and parish, bounded on the north John Boudier K.A. late fellow of that college. .At Staple­ by the river Rother and on the east by the county of Kent, cross is a Wesleyan chapel. The principal landowne1s are 6 miles east from Robertsbrid~ station on the Hastings and the Duke of Cleveland I.G. and the trustees of Henry Burra Tonbridge branch of the South Eastern railway, 6 miles esq. J.P. 'The parish is in two manors, Robertsbridge and north of Battle, I 1 north from Hastings and 66 from London, Ewhurst; Henry Wells Allfrey esq. of Stratford-on-Avon, is in the Eastern division of the county, Battle petty sessional lord of the former and Thomas Smith Pix esq. ~.P. of Wood­ division and union, hundred of Staple, rape and county side, Peasmarsh, lord of the latter. The soil is loamy ; sub­ court district of Hastings, rnral deanery of Hastings (second soil, sandy gravel. The chief crops are wheat and hops. division), archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. The area is 5,7I9 acres ; rateable value, £4,938 ; the popu- The church of St. James is a building of stone in the Early lation in x881 was I,Q9S. • • English and Decorated styles, and consists of chancel, nave Parish Clerk, J oseph Thomas N ewington. of three bays, aisles, west porch and a western tower with low spire containing 5 bells : the font, a square basin, on a POST OFFICE, Ewhurst Green.--William Cook, receiver. circular column, is of Sussex marble ; and, there are several Letters arrive from Hawkhurst at 7.3oa.m. & 4.20p.m.; stained windows: the church wBB thoroughly restored in dispatched at 6.30 p.m. a& sundaya 10.30 a.m. P08tal orders are issned here, but not paid 1874, and has 2,59 sittings. The earliest date ot rqristet is 1570. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge PosT, M. 0. & T. 0. & S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance Office, £688, gross early value £.738, with residence and o acres Staplecross.-Mrs. Mary Ann Gilbert, l'e(!eiver. Letters arrive from Hawkhurst at 8 a. m. & 5.30 p.of.; dispatched College, Cambri e, .-nd held, fnce ~863 by the Rev. George ~ at 6.30 p.m. ; sund ays 10.30 a.m ' K. S. & S. 138 .