Place:Newick, Sussex, England

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Newick is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located on the A272 road six miles (10 km) east of Haywards Heath.

The parish has an area of 7.8 km2 (3.0 sq mi) with a population at the 2011 UK census was 2,457.

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"NEWICK, a village and a parish in Lewis [registration] district, Sussex. The village stands near the river Ouse, 3½ miles W of Uckfield [railway] station; is a pretty place; and has a post-office under Uckfield, and a fair on 1 June. The parish contains also the places called Painters, Lane-End, Schoolhouse, Goldbridge, Broomley, and Bretts. Acres: 1,966. Real property: £3,982. Population: 991. Houses: 197. The property is much subdivided.

"The manor belongs to Mrs. Lane. Newick Place, or Newick Park, belonged formerly to the Vernon family, and belongs now to J. H. Slater, Esq. Beechlands is the residence of W. H. Blaauw, Esq.; and Newick Lodge, of M. H. Archer, Esq. Lignite coal is found; hops are grown; and there is a small brewery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value: £387. Patron: the Rev. T. B. Powell. The church is early English, in good condition; and consists of nave, [north] aisle, and chancel, with low embattled tower. There are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and a girls' endowed school with £50 a year."

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