Guide to the street listings

† the street or building no longer exists
∫ a former name of a street
¶ Conservation areas
Bold: Current places
CAPITALS: areas, estates and neighbourhoods
SMALL CAPITALS: Conservation areas
Italics: spaces (eg, parks, gardens)

• Where a place is within a designated conservation areas or has an Important Local Parade, details are given below the placename.
¶ other designations (eg, Important Shopping Parade)

PH indicates a current public house, inn or tavern or one no longer standing.
[PH] indicates a former public house, inn or tavern still standing but in other use.

• Property numbers within streets were not always reliable until at least the 1860s-1870s and in certain cases can vary considerably. Until they settled down, the best or at least most consistent is given.
• A further complication is that streets have been subject to renumbering as the description of the street will indicate, including, where possible the effect in numerical terms.

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REFERENCES
Years, when given, indicate the earliest (and in the case of defunct addresses, last) reference in street directories consulted (so not definitive and not necessaily even accurate). The earliest census reference is shown as just the year in bold (eg, 1861). The following letters are used to indicate the publishers of directories, followed by a year:

Ba  Baxter [1822, 1824]
Br  Brighton
Census  [decennial 1841-1911]
Co  Cobby [1799, 1800]
Fo  Folthorp [1846-1864]
Ke  Kelly [1930-1973 but also branded as Post Office (B&H and Sussex editions) 1845-1915]
Le  Leppard [1839]
Me  Melville [1858]
OS  Ordnance Survey [maps, various dates]
Pa  Page [successor to Folthorp 1864-1895]
Pi  Pike [1899-1929]
PO  Post Office (Kelly) [1845-1846]
Sw  Swaysland & Gill
Ta  Taylor [1854]
To  Towner [1898-1907]

• Dates show in square brackets without identifying a directory are from other sources, including anecdotal references.
• See the Bibliography for details of sources.
• For an extensive searchable collection of these street directories, visit the My House My Street website. Note that this is currently not available.

HE the Historic England reference number to listed buildings.
ESRO the accession number of a file in the East Sussex Record Office.

Census listings
For listings of streets and other places as they appear in each decennial census, click here.

Measurements
Some measurements of length and area are given in imperial units to which the following is a guide:
Length
1 mile (m) = 8 furlongs = 1,760 yards
1 furlong (f) = 10 chains = 220 yards
1 chain (ch) = 4 rods, poles or perches = 100 links = 22 yards*
1 rod, pole or perch (p) = 5.5 yards
1 yard (yd) = 3 feet
1 foot (ft) = 12 inches
Area
1 square mile = = 64 square furlongs = 640 acres
1 acre = 4840 square yards = 4 roods
1 rood = 40 [square] poles = 1 furlong x 1 pole = 1,210 square yards
1 [square] pole = 30.25 square yards
1 square yard = 9 square feet
1 square foot = 144 square inches

*The length of a cricket pitch, wicket to wicket. Railway distances are still measured in miles and chains, as seen on the plaque affixed to any railway bridge.

Additionally, there were local and imprecise Sussex measurements of area:
laines, comprising a variable number of tenantry acres, were separated by roads 16 feet wide; Brighton comprised five laines: East Laine, Hilly Laine, Little Laine, North Laine and West Laine;
tenantry acres were divided into furlongs by roads known as leakways—8ft wide and at right angles to the wide roads but at variable intervals;
furlongs were thus of variable size (not the conventional 220 yards) and each was in turn divided into a number of
paul-pieces (pauls) of equal width measured along the leakways, regardless of the depth of the strips;
hatchet-pieces was the name for paul-pieces, when of irregular rather than rectangular shape.