Slaugham, Sussex

Description
Slaugham, a parish in Sussex, 3 1/2 miles WSW of Balcombe station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3 3/4 NW of Cuckfield. It is cut into the sections of Handcross, Pease Pottage, Warningfield, and Slaugham, and it has a post office under Crawley; money order and telegraph office, Handcross, Acreage, 5482; population, 1616. The neighbourhood is very pretty, and contains many gentlemen's seats. Ruins of a quondam splendid mansion of the Coverts occupy about 3 acres, and include several Norman arches. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £250 with residence. The church is Decorated English, and has been well restored. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A spring of excellent water rises in Slaugham Park, from which the whole of the village is supplied.