DIR~CTORY. J SUSSEX. STORRINGTON. 597 Rogers Mrs. Hillside Beeney Edgar, fa.rm bailiff to C., Potter Joseph, farmer, Maplesden Shelley Major A.rchibald D.G., R.E. Brissendcn e.sq Smith Fred, farmer, Eatonden Manor Bricklehurst manor Cole Horace An1os, farmer, Bardown farm COMMERCIAL. Harmer George Michael, Bridge inn, Smith George, boot maker Alien Shalto, farmer, Battenhurst Ticehurst Road s~atiou Southun Melina A. (Miss), farmer, Badcock Frederick J()hn, farmer, Kelse~· George, farmer Cooper's farm Hammerden farm Masters George Venson, grocer Tester William, farmer Baker Eli, f.a.rmer, New house Odell Herbert, farmer, Tutts farm Vidler Julia (Mrs.),frmr.Witherenden Baker George, fanner Pattenden Jane (Mrs.), farmer. Wickha.m Henry C. miller (water), Barham Henry & Sons, wheelwrights Stores farm Withe·renden mill STOPHA.M is a parish, situated on thP road from net income £go, with z8 acres of glebe and residence, Midhurst to Brighton, I mile north-west from Pal in the gift of Sir W. B. Barttelot hart. and held since borough station on the Horsham and Midhurst branch r887 h,r the Rev. Vernon Lane Guise M.A. of Merton of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, and College, Oxford. Stopham House, an ancient mansion, 4 south-east from Petworth, in the North Western divi known in earlier times as " La Forde,'' or "Ford Place," sion of the county, hundred of Rotherbridge, rape of is the property of Sir W alter Ilalfour Barttelot bart. lord A.rundel, petty sessional division, union and county court. of the manor and chief landowner, and the residence of district of Petworth, and in the rural deanery of Pet Mrs. Teschemaker. The Manor House has generally worth and archdeaconry and diocPse of Chichester. been identified with an old building near the church, Stopham Bridge, of seven arches, over the river Arun, now a farm house. The soil is sand; subsoil, gravel. is in the south-eastern district of the parish ; it was The chief crops are wheat, oats, turnips and mangolds. built in the reign of Edward II. {r3o9) by the Barttelot The area is 857 acres of land, 6 of water and I2 of tidal £amily and replaced the earlier " Estover " ferry. The water; rateable value, £r,ziB; the population in rgu church of St. Mary is of rubble stone in the Early was I58. English and Decorated styles, and has a tower containing Post Office.-Walter Warner, sub-postmaster. Letters 2 bells: in the chancel window are the quartered arms through Pulborough arrive at 6.55 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; of the ancient family of Barttelot: another window sundays, 6.55 a. m. ; dispatched at 8.5 a.m. & 6.50 contains figures- of several of tR.e Stop hams and p.m. ; sundays at 4.25 p.m. Pulborough is the Ilarttelots, and was the work of Roelandt, a Flemish nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant glass stainer, whose name appears on it: there are also several memorial windows to the Barttelot family, Wall Letter Box, outside Stopham house, cleared at besides many brasses to the same family, I400-I]oo, 8.50 & I0.30 a.m. & 7·I5 p.m.; sundays, 4.40 p.m and marble tablets: there are So sittings. The register Public Elementary School (mixed), built for 42 chil dates from the year I544· The living is a rectory, dren ; Miss Burnill, mistress Guise Rev. VernonLaneM.A. TheRectry Dicker Edith (Mrs.), laundry, The Nicholson James, gardener to Mrs. Parsons John Whitehill,Little Hilliers Cottage Teschemaker Te~chemaker Mrs. Stopham house Ellcome William, farmer,Manor farm Pascoe Peter Parry, farmr. Lee farm Holden Eli, farmer Warner Waiter, shopkeeper, Post off STORRINGTON is a large parish and pretty village, acres of land and 4 of water; rateable value, £7,128; 5 miles south-east from Pulborough station on the the population in rgn was r,r86. Horsham and Midhurst section of the London, Brighton I and South Coast railway, IO north-west from Worthing, COOTHAM, about r mile west, is a hamlet of this. 9 north-east from A.rundel, IO south-east from Petworth · parish. .an
•