Description
Westmeston, a parish, with East Chiltington hamlet, in Sussex, 3 miles ESE of Hassocks Gate station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6 1/2 NNE of Brighton. Post town, Hassocks; money order office, Ditchling; telegraph office, Keymer. Acreage, 2436; population of the civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, 718. Middleton House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, with East Chiltington annexed, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £340 with residence. The church is a plain builiding of flint, chiefly in the Early English style, and has been restored. A chapel of ease is at Chiltington.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
