ALBOURNE, a parish in Cuckfield district, Sussex; 3½ miles W of Hassock's Gate r. station, and 6½ SW of Cuckfield. It has a post office under Hurstperpoint. Acres, 1,740. Real property, £2,641. Pop., 341. Houses, 68. The property is somewhat divided. Albourne Place is said to have been built by Archbishop Juxon, who attended Charles I. on the scaffold; and was the residence of the eccentric Sir R. Fagge The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £225.* Patron, John Goring, Esq. The church is good. Charities, £11.

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