PYECOMBE, or Piecombe, a village and a parish in Cuckfield district, Sussex. The village stands adjacent to the Clayton tunnel of the London and Brighton railway, 2½ miles S by W of Hassocks-Gate r. station, and 5½ N by W of Brighton; is sheltered, on the N and the W, by the Downs; and has a post-office under Hurst-perpoint. The parish comprises 2, 249 acres. Real property, £2,046; of which £234 are in quarries. Pop., 283. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. The manor and much of the land belong to the Crown. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £345.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there is a national school.

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