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Chanctonbury Hill (242m) Rape of
Lewes Lewes Lewes Castle 524 5 Barcombe,
Buttinghill, Dean, Fishersgate, Holmstrow, Poynings, Preston, Street, Swanborough...
- rape is
traditionally divided into the
following hundreds:
Barcombe Buttinghill Dean
Fishersgate Holmstrow Poynings Preston Streat Swanborough Whalebourne...
- in the late 19th
century it was
described as
being "in the
hundred of
Buttinghill, in the rape of Lewes". The
civil parish covers an area of 431.58 ha...
- hundreds, and the area now
known as
Pease Pottage was in the
Hundred of
Buttinghill.
Slaugham is
first mentioned around 1095 when the
tithes were granted...
-
Bolneya or
Bolne in the 13th century, and was one of 12 in the
Hundred of
Buttinghill in the Rape of Lewes.
Despite the
absence of
earlier written records...
- and in
other cases the
hundreds had been
divided and lost.
Barcombe Buttinghill Dean
Fishergate Holmestrow Poynings Preston Street Swanborough Wha****urne...
- the 13th century, it was in the
parish of
Slaugham in the
Hundred of
Buttinghill (hundreds were
ancient divisions of land
covering several parishes)....
