England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of South Heighton lies in southern Sussex not too far from its English Channel coast. South Heighton is located about 1 1/2 miles north of the port of Newhaven and sits on the A26 road which connects Newhaven with Lewes. At the time of this transcript South Heighton was a small farming village sitting on the eastern edge of the flood-plain of the Sussex River Ouse, grazing of cattle in the valley bottom and sheep on the nearby chalk downland provided the main income of the parish. Following the destruction of their church the parish was merged with that of Tarring Neville to its north. Today South Heighton is a suburb of the port of Newhaven which has stretched a little way along the valley following the A26, modern developments in the form of the railway line from Lewes to Newhaven also have arrived albeit South Heighton does not warrant a station. The Ouse drains the parish the short distance to the English Channel arriving through Newhaven. South Heighton is sited at between 10 &30 metres above the sea with higher properties rising up the slope of the nearby heights of Heighton Hill which tops out at 114 metres. South Heighton was a small parish covering just over 900 acres in which around 100 parishioners would have been supported. South Heighton is not specifically mentioned in Domesday Book. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 1st September 1763 - 26th December 1769 | East Sussex Record Office. The Keep - Reference - PAR/374/1/13 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
No other surviving registers or BTs exist for this parish, |
Tarring
Neville St Mary
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Beddingham
St Andrew
West Firle St Peter |
Alciston
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Piddinghoe
St John
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Alciston
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Denton
St Leonard
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Denton
St Leonard
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