In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sidley like this:

SIDLEY, a hamlet in the SE of Sussex; 5 miles S of Battle. It has a post-office under Battle, and a fair on the Monday after 29 June.

Sidley through time

Sidley is now part of ROTHER District. Click here for graphs and data of how ROTHER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sidley itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sidley, in Rother and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23535

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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