Description
Dallington, a parish in Sussex, 6 miles from Robertsbridge on the S.E.R., and 5^ from Heathfield on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1941; population, 422. The area was once part of the Great Forest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £166 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is good, and its tower commands a grand view. Sir Josepli Jekyll was a native. There are Wesleyan and Calvinistic chapels, and a reading-room with library.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
