SEDLESCOMB, a parish in Battle district, Sussex; on the river Brede, 3 miles N E of Battle r. station. It has a post-office under Battle. Acres, 2,049. Real property, £2, 849. Pop., 703. Houses, 143. The property is subdivided. A commandery of Knights Hospitallers was founded here, in the time of King John, by Geoffrey Say. Roman coins were found in an ancient cinder-field. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £392.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English, with later English additions. There is an endowed school with £24 a year.

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