FAIRLIGHT, a parish in Hastings district, Sussex; on the coast, near the Ashford and Hastings railway, 2½ miles ENE of Hastings. Post town, Hastings. Acres, 3, 309; of which 410 are water. Real property, £3, 028. Pop., 501. Houses, 105. Fairlight Place is a picturesque, thickly-wooded glen; and has, at its head, the Dripping-well, overhung by a huge beach-tree. Fairlight Down has an altitude of 599 feet, and commands a fine view, both inland and along the coast. Fairlight Lodge and Fairlight House are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £502. Patron,Young, Esq. The church was rebuilt in 1845. Charities, £10.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))