Hide
Rottingdean
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
hide
Hide
Hide
ROTTINGDEAN is a parish and village on the seacoast, between Brighton and Newhaven; here are bathing machines; private baths have been established, and many lodging houses have been erected: it is in the Eastern division of the county, Younsmere hundred, Newhaven union, Lewes rape, archdeaconry and rural deanery, and diocese of Chichester, 54 miles fromLondon, 4 east from, and in the county court district of, Brighton. The church of St. Margaret is in the Early Englishstyle and consists of nave, aisle, chancel, and tower with spire. The register dates from 1710. The living is a vicarage,annual value £332, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Abergavenny, and held by the Rev. Arthur Thomas, M.A., ofTrinity College, Cambridge. This village is noted for its wells, which are empty at high water, and rise as the tide falls. Pebbles of agate and chalcedony are found here, which are cut and polished for bracelets, and called Rottingdean pebbles.The Brighton industrial schools are situate at Warren farm in this parish. The area is 3,639 acres; the population in 1861 was 1,016. [Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1867.]
Hide
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Rottingdean to another place.
View a map of the boundaries of this town/parish.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TQ369025 (Lat/Lon: 50.80589, -0.058458), Rottingdean which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.