Mayfield

"The sweetest village in England." Thus wrote Coventry Patmore, the poet, of Mayfield, before the days of railway or modern building; but the old village has a great charm yet, and is practically unspoilt by alterations. It crowns the top of a gradual ascent, and stands a landmark for many miles around. The fine old church and the towers and roofs of the convent buildings form a central group on the highest point, around which cluster the peaked red roofs of the houses that follow the downward slope of the ground, not so closely set together as to prevent glimpses of sunny gardens and green trees in their midst. extract from Mayfield - The Story of an Old Wealden Village written in 1903

Mayfield is a village and parish in the East Grinstead division of Sussex, in the hundred of Loxfield Pelham, rape of Pevensey, rural deanery of Dallington, archdeaconry of Hastings and diocese of Chichester. Mayfield includes Five Ashes, Coggins Mill Street and parts of Hadlow Down. On 1st October 1905 Hadlow Down was formed into a separate civil parish. Mayfield is 8 miles from Tunbridge Wells and 42 miles south of London The population of Mayfield in 1811 was 2,079; in 1841 was 2,943; in 1861 was 2,688; in 1871 was 2,828; in 1881 was 2,912; in 1891 was 3,217; in 1901 was 3,164; in 1911 was 2,803; in 1921 was 2,880; and in 1931 was 3,080.

Mayfield 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 Mayfield historical notes has been derived from the same sources to highlight Mayfield's key events in chronological order

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
8840	Births		3	27	43	98	56	109	183	438	1439	2834	2053	1544	13
3034	Christenings			20	31	77	43	100	133	131	498	1032	632	337
1884	Marriages			44	84	40	42	58	130	198	326	556	342	56	4	2	2
133	Deaths			1	6	6	10	10	7	17	21	26	16	10	2	1
106	Burials			1	6	3	7	6	7	12	14	26	12	10	1	1

Books and other documents

The History of Tunbridge Wells by Thomas Benge Burr in 1766 - Page 259

Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood by Paul Amsinck and Letitia Byrne in 1810 - Page 26

Guide of Tunbridge Wells in 1830 - Page 85

Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells and the Calverley Estate by John Britton, F.S.A. in 1832 - Page 111

The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex by Thomas Walker Horsfield, F.S.A. in 1835 - Page 415

New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen in 1840 - Page 168

The Post Office Directory of Sussex by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. in 1851

Extracts from the Journal of Walter Gale, Schoolmaster at Mayfield, 1750 by R. W. Blencowe, Esq. in 1857 - Page 182

The Post Office Directory of Sussex by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. in 1867

Mayfield by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., V.P. in 1869 - Page 1

Additional Notes on Mayfield by William Ansell Day, Esq. in 1869 - Page 20

A Compendious History of Sussex - Volume II. by Mark Antony Lower, M.A. in 1870 - Page 44

The Post Office Directory of Sussex by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. in 1874

Kelly's Directory of Sussex by E. R. Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. in 1882

Pelton's Illustrated Guide to Tunbridge Wells by J. Radford Thomson, M.A. in 1883 - Page 180

Local Blue Book and Directory of East Sussex in 1886 - Page 213

Mayfield - The Story of an Old Wealden Village by Elizabeth Margaretta Bell-Irving in 1903

Highways and Byways in Sussex by E.V. Lucas in 1904 - Page 302

Sussex by Wilfred Ball in 1906

English Homes and Villages (Kent & Sussex) by Lady Hope in 1909 - Page 70

The Sussex Highlands in 1927 - Page 44

Wealden Iron by Ernest Straker in 1931 - Page 292

People of note	Bell-Irving, Elizabeth M. (1848 - c 1928) Historian Maynard, John (c1595 - 1665) Puritan Wickliffe, John (c1320 - 1383) Vicar of Mayfield

Mayfield pictures	Mayfield Palace c 1780	The Great Hall, Mayfield Palace c 1780	The Banqueting Hall, Mayfield Palace c 1780	Mayfield Abbey 1781	Mayfield Place 1783	St Dunstans Palace 26th Dec 1783	Ruins of the Palace at Mayfield 1797
	Mayfield Place 1809	Mayfield Palace 1840	Middle House 1863	Mayfield Palace 1864	Mayfield Village 1892	Fair Day c 1895	Middle House 1896

Mayfield Maps	c 1724	c 1795	c 1825	c 1875

Sussex Maps	1610	1645	1695	1750	1763	1st Sept 1787	1808
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