Ticehurst, Sussex

Description
Ticehurst, a village, a parish, and a district, in Sussex. The village stands on high ground, 3 miles ENE of Ticehurst Road station on the S.E.R., 44 miles from London, and 10 SE of Tunbridge Wells. It presents a clean and pleasant appearance, contains some neat villas, and has two good inns, an ancient church, Calvinistic and Wesleyan chapels, a mechanics' institute, and fairs on 4 May and 7 Oct. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Hawkhurst. Acreage of the civil parish, 8265; population, 2931; of the ecclesiastical, 1838. There is a parish council consisting of thirteen members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £367 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The vicarages of Stonegate and Flimwell are separate benefices. Highlands, known officially as Ticehurst House, is a splendid range of buildings, delightfully situated, which for nearly a century has been maintained as a private asylum of the first class for the nervous and insane.