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RINGMER is a village and parish, 3 miles north-east from Lewes,
and 48 by road from London, on the road to Hailsham, in the Eastern division
of the county, Chailey union, Ringmer hundred, Lewes county court district,
Pevensey rape, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of
Chichester, but one of the peculiars under the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient building, with small wooden
spire and a fine old porch : it has chancel, nave, aisles, and contains
numerous monuments and several brasses. The register commences in the
year 1560. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £400, with residence,
in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held by the Rev. Edward
Symons, B.A., of Wadham College, Oxford. Here is a mixed school, and a
Congregational chapel; a Board school is now (1878) being erected. Broyle
Place, an ancient mansion, of which only a portion remains, is supposed
to have been built by one of the archbishops of Canterbury. A part of
the horse artillery barracks, formerly standing near the village, has
been converted into a kennel for the South Down foxhounds. Here is a police
station of the Sussex constabulary. Hays' charity, left in the year 1787
by Miss Hays, consists of £2,000 new £3 per cents. and £2,500 bank stock,
the interest, now £300 nearly, to be equally divided between the poor
of Ringmer and Glynde : the pensioners on this charity are now 2 at £20
per annum, 13 at £10, and 22 at £5. £27 from Chenoey's charity is distributed
yearly. The principal landowners are Viscount Gage, the Earl de la Warr,
who is lord of the manor, W.L. Christie, esq., M.P. Right Hon. J.G. Dodson,
M.P. and the trustees of the late Sir James Duke, bart. The soil is clay;
subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 5,626
acres; rateable value, £9,275; and the population in 1871 was 1,478. POST OFFICE. - John Imms, sub-postmaster, Ringmer green. Letters arrive
through Lewes, 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m. on week days, & 11 a.m.
on sunday. The nearest money order and telegraph office is at Lewes |
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PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bodle Charles COMMERCIAL. Baldwin Jonathan, farmer, Wellingham |
