Description
Telscombe, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, 3 1/2 miles WNW of Newhaven station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Lewes. Acreage, 1181; population of the civil parish, 128; of the ecclesiastical, 369. Telscombe Tye was a Roman station, and is a meet of the Brighton harriers. The living is a rectory, with Piddinghoe annexed, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £310 with residence. The church is ancient.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
