WALDRON, a parish in Uckfield district, Sussex; 5½ miles ESE of Uckfield r. station. It has a post-office under Hurst-Green; and it contains Cross-in-Hand, which has an inn and two fairs. Acres, 6,218. Real property, £4,890. Pop., 1,132. Houses, 204. The manors belong to the Earl of Chichester and Louis Huth, Esq. Horeham, Tanners, and Popingworth were formerly fine mansions, and are now farm-houses; but a noble residence has lately been built on the Popingworth estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £455. Patron, Exeter College, Oxford. The church was restored in 1862; and another church built in 1863, at Cross-in-Hand. There are a Wesleyan chapel and two parochial schools.

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