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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Handcross like this:
HANDCROSS, a hamlet in Slaugham parish, Sussex; on the east verge of St. Leonard's Forest, 4½ miles NW of Cuckfield. It has a post office under Crawley. Handcross House was the seat of General Blake.
Handcross is now part of MID SUSSEX District. Click here for graphs and data of how MID SUSSEX has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Handcross itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Handcross, in Mid Sussex and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25134
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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