Ticehurst

The comparative seclusion of Ticehurst is largely compensated for by the beauty of the neighbourhood, typical of East Sussex scenery at its best; by the healthiness of the village which is set on a high ridge affording glorious views; and by the fact that the population, while sufficiently large to admit of common action in the provision of social and recreative facilities, is still small enough to preserve that community of interests among all classes which is one of the happier features of life in our country districts. The name of the parish is spelt in a rich variety of ways in old records ... Ticheshurst, Tiseherse, Tisehurst, Tysehurst, Tyseherst, Tyshert and Tiseherst. As to the derivation of the name, one finds oneself in the realm of speculation and conjecture. The second syllable of the word is, of course, the Anglo-Saxon word hurst, signifying a thick wood. The origin of the first syllable is not undisputed. Some have suggested that it recalls the name of a Saxon goddess, while others allege that the parish takes its name from the River Teise, a small stream which rises in the parish and eventually joins the Medway near Yalding. extract from Leonard Houston's Ticehurst: the Story of a Sussex Parish

Ticehurst is a large village and parish and head of a union, on the border of Kent and on the road from Tunbridge Wells to Battle and Rye, 3 ½ miles north-east from Ticehurst Road station on the South Eastern section of the Southern railway from Tonbridge to Hastings, and near Wadhurst and Etchingham stations on the same line, and 9 ¾ miles south-east from Tunbridge Wells, and is in the Rye division of the county, hundred of Shoyswell, rape of Hastings, petty sessional division of Burwash, county court district of Tunbridge Wells, rural deaconry of Etchingham, archdeaconry of Hastings and diocese of Chichester.

Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 Ticehurst population 1,436 1,593 1,966 2,314 2,465 2,850 2,758 2,939 3,007 2,931 2,931 2,853 2,611

Ticehurst directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period

Parish & other records		Before 1500	1500 to 1550	1550 to 1600	1600 to 1650	1650 to 1700	1700 to 1725	1725 to 1750	1750 to 1775	1775 to 1800	1800 to 1825	1825 to 1850	1850 to 1875	1875 to 1900	1900 to 1925	1925 to 1950	1950 to 1975	1975 to 2000	After 2000
5791	Births	1		4	14	47	39	38	73	276	824	1740	1529	1197	6	3
636	Christenings			4	13	47	37	31	48	96	202	141	5	7	4	1
452	Marriages			4	14	32	18	16	44	46	100	128	34	10	2	4
63	Deaths						2		5	3	6	12	15	15	4	1
48	Burials						2		4	3	4	8	14	10	2	1

Books and other documents

The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. in 1835 - Page 588

New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen in 1840 - Page 379

A Compendious History of Sussex - Volume II. by Mark Antony Lower, M.A. in 1870 - Page 202

Pelton's Illustrated Guide to Tunbridge Wells by J. Radford Thomson, M.A. in 1883 - Page 175

Ticehurst: The Story of a Sussex Village by Leonard J. Hodson, LL.B. (Lond.) and Julia A. Odell in 1925

People of note	Newington, Charles (1780 - 1852) Surgeon of Ticehurst House

Ticehurst pictures	Boarzell 1783	South Front, Whiligh 1784	Ticehurst Church 1785	The Old Vicarage 1792	Highlands and Ticehurst House c 1830	The New National School 1849	The Old Vicarage c 1851
	Old Boarzell House 1859	Church Street c 1869	Ticehurst Church c 1879	The Lower Toll Gate c 1890	Shoyswell 1900	Limden Farm 1900	Shortridges 1900

Sussex Maps	1610	1645	1695	1750	1763	1st Sept 1787	1837
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