Keymer, Sussex

Description
Keymer or Kymere, a village and a parish in Sussex. The station for the village is Hassocks on the L.B. & S.C.R., 43 miles from Li. ndon. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hassocks. Acreage of the civil parish, 3573; population, 3045. Ecclesiastically, Keymer is joined to Clayton, and is a rectory in the diocese of Chiehester; joint gross value, £ti00. The northern part of these parishes has been formed into a separate ecclesiastical district under the name of the vicarage of St John's Common. This includes the Local Board district of Burgess Hill, and the portions of Clayton and Keymer parishes still farther north. The population of this ecclesiastical district in 1891 was 4413; that of Clayton and Keymer, 1398. The parish church was rebuilt, with the exception of the apsidal chancel, in 1866; a north aisle was added in 1890. The manufacture of brown-ware bricks and tiles is carried on at Burgess Hill. In this district, i.e.. Burgess Hill, there are two railway stations on the L.B. & S.C.R.-viz. Burgess Hill and Keymer Junction, the latter being nearly 3 miles from the village and church of Keymer.