Sussex

Excursions in the County of Sussex Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations Together with Descripitons of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity and Other Interesting Articles of Curiostiy Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveler and Tourist - Thomas Cromwell (1822):

The Climate of Sussex varies much with the aspects the different portions of its surface In some parts aii is as mild as it is commonly found to be in this but in others particularly on the South Down where open to the south west it is excessively bleak unfavourable to the progress of vegetation The here have frequently sufficient force to dislodge and other roofs from houses and out buildings says the reverend author of the Agriculture of Sussex when impregnated with saline particles occasioned by the beating of the spray against the beach all the hedges and trees within the sphere of influence On the side exposed to their fury the seem to be cut as if it were artificially and in open situations though at a considerable distance the coast the spray penetrates the houses even if with brick Hence arises the necessity of placing buildings in this district in low and sheltered positions to prevent the mischief which would otherwise be occasioned by these winds.

Sussex is in length seventy six miles and in breadth at a medium something less than twenty its in acres amount to 933,360. Its boundaries to the north Surrey on the east and north east on the south the British Channel and on the Hampshire. The population agreeably to the made to parliament in 1811 amounted to 190,083 whom 94,188 were males and 95,895 females showing an increase since 1801 of 35,772 persons. The of inhabited houses as specified in the above was 29,561 The divisions of the county are into rapes a term to Sussex hundreds and parishes.