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CLIFFE, or Cliffe-by-Lewes, or St. Thomas-in-the-Cliffe, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; adjacent to the river Ouse and the South Coast railway, in the eastern vicinity of Lewes. Post town, Lewes. Acres, with Lewes borough. Rated property, £4, 371. Pop., 1, 568. Houses, 290. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £130. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is good; and there is a workhouse.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Administrative units: | Sussex AncC |
Place names: | CLIFFE | CLIFFE BY LEWES | CLIFFE OR CLIFFE BY LEWES OR ST THOMAS IN THE CLIFFE | ST THOMAS IN THE CLIFFE |
Place: | Cliffe |
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