Grinstead, EAST, an old-fashioned town of Sussex, 36 miles S. by E. of London by rail, which till 1832 returned two members to parliament. Here is Sackville College, of which Dr Neale was warden, and the convent of the sisterhood of St Margaret, with Home and Orphanage. Pop. 5390.—WEST GRINSTEAD is 18 miles to the south-west.
Grinstead
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 426
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