DIRECTORY.] SUSSEX. KIRDFORD. 437

Lighthouse, Harry Kensett, keeper Church of Englillld School (mixed), for 6o children; London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Wharfinger'E average attendance, 38; it is supported by Hugh Office, Henry Hackett, wharfinger Gorringe esq. ; Miss Mortlock, mistress Bnrtenshaw Thoe.Albt. 18 Kingston ter' Ball Geo. mstr.mariner,10Kingston ter Mathews Ernest & Co.slate mercluints, Carpenter William, I] Kingston ter Barnes John, plumber, 2 Kingston ter Kingst

KIRDFORD is a village, and, with Plaistow chape:ry, 1 esq. J.P. of Aldingoourne House, John Peachey esq. of forms a large parisli, extending northward to the borders ' Ebernoe, Captain R. Penfold and Henry Nicholls e8q. are of Surrey, 5~ miles west from Billingshurst station, the chief landowners. The soil is a stiff clay, with sub­ on the Horsham and Midhurst branch of the London, soil of same. The principal crops are oats, wheat, barley Brighton and South Coast railway, 5 north-east from and pasture. The area is 12,407 acres of land and go of Petworth, in the North Western division of the county, water, nearly one-third of which is woodland; rateable Arundel rape, Rotherbridge hundred, Petworth petty value, £6,2}o6; the population in the civil parish in 1891 sessional division, union and county court district, ruro.l was 1,648, including 24 in Petworth workhouse, and in deanery of Petworth, and archdea(X)nry and diocese of the eoclesiastical, 1,364. By the Divided Paruhes Act a Chichester; it has been conjectured to derive its name detached portion of Lurgashall was annexed to the parish from Cerdic, founder of the \Vest Saxon kingdom, and in I879· was the scene, in s rg, of an impoi'bant battle with the Ebernoe, a district in this civil parish, has been British inhabitants, perhaps at or near Battlehurst, a formed into an ecclesiastical parish, and will be found hamlet in this parish. A tributary of the Arun flows under a. separate heading. through the sout-hern portion of the parish. The church Parish Clerk, Henry Wadey. of St. John the Baptist is of stone, principally in the ~or- Plaistow is a large district, village and chapelry, 3 man and Early Engl~sh styles, with Pevpendicular ad- miles north, near the confines of Surrey. The chapel, ditions and insertions, and has a tower containing a clock erected by subscription in 1854-55 is a building of stone and 6 bells : the church retains its ancient and massive in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel and nave, benches, evidently hewn out with an a~e, and the oaken and has 200 sittings, 100 being free; the Rev. Dewi Doug­ communion 11ails are of a very curious twisted pattern, and las OWisborough Green. Postal orders are Cambndge: The Earl of W1~terton 1s the owner ?f a issmed here, but not paid la-rge -port10n of the gr~a.t bthe,s. The Congregabonal Post Office, Balls Cross.-Thomas Payne, sub-postmaster. chapel here w_as erected m 1892-3, at the sQle exp~nse of Letters received from Petworth at 8 a.m.; dispatched Jesse J. Tustm esq. {)f ~~ustow Hall, Surrey, and will ~eat at 6.20 p.m.; sundays at 1 2 noon. The nearest money ab.o1_1t 120. The chanties amoun~ to £2 2s. y~a;ly, order & telegraph office is at Petworth ansmg from rent-charge and savmgs bank ~ecu.nties, Post & T. 0. Plaistow. Waiter Pennicard, sub-postmas- ~eft by Messrs.~h.ud~ and Smallwood, and are distnbuted ter. Letters through Billingshurst R.S.O. arrive at m. money. ~Fullmg,ee Park, the seat of the Earl ?f 8.5s a.m.; dispatched at 4.so p.m. Wisborough Green Wmterton, Situated on the borders of the coun~y._ Is is the nearest money order office. Postal orders are well wooded and has several large lakeil; the. origma.l issued here but not paid mansion has been entirely hidden by subsequent addi- Wall Letter 'Box (street) cleared week days 5 p.m.; tic•ns, a west front bearing date I735 and a south front sundays II a.m ' of brick with stone facings, erected in Y778, b:r the first ' Schools. earl; from the latter a very extensive view of the surrounding oountry may be obtained; the chief attrac­ Xational (mixed), built in I8Ig, & enlarged in I8g8, for tion of the place is derived from the picturesque park, IS3 ; average attendance, 1 ro ; J esse Goodacre, master; Mrs. Goodacre, mistress 200 acres in extent, surrounding the mansion: the oollection of pictures is valunble. Hold House is :Kational (mixed), Plaistow, built in 1863, for 120 chil­ the residence of Lionel L. Constable esq. ; Bark­ dren; average attendance, 8I; Arthur Jessup, master; fold House, of Capt. 0. N. H. Barwell; Roundwyck, of Mrs. Beatrice J essup, mistress Oaptain Robert Penfolrl; Hawkhur~ Court, of John Os- Carriers. maston esq.; ,Sladeland, of .Arthnr Hanbury esq. & Brown- Stemp, to Godalming & Guildford, on man. & thnrs. ings, of Henry Nicholls esq. There are several manors in returning tues. & fri Kirdford parish. The Earl of Wintei'ton, Lord Leconfield, Denman, of Wisborough Green, calls here wed. returning the trustees of the late Lady Newbnre-h, Henry Fred. same day _ Napper esq. of Billingshurst, "\Yilliam Wyndham Hasler William Foster, to Guildford, from Plaistow, tues. & fri 'Barwell Capt. Osborne Xathaniel Hy. Osmaston John D.L., J.P. Hawkhnrst PRIVATE RESIDENTS. J.P. Barkfold house court (Persons r~siding in Kirdford &_ ~la is- Birrell Rev. Erskine Alex.M.A.. Vicarage Penfuld Capt. RDbert, Round wyck tow receive lett_ers through Blllmgs- Constab1e Lionel L. Hold house Wooldridge Fredk. Rickman la.Plaistw hur91J; .t those m Balls Cross, Round- Hanburv .A.rthur Sladeland wyck .t Shilling:ee park, through Mam1 Edward, Haistow COMMERCIAL. Petworth.) Morgan-Kirby Rev. Dewi Douglas Bagley James, farmer, Bellcba.mber11 Winterton Earl of, D.L. Shillimg- Courtney Kirby (cunte in charge), Baker Alfred, shopkeeper, ReetlP.brook lee park; & Arthur's & Carlton Plaistow Baker GPo. farmer, Neal!!, Ba:l!t Cross clubs, London S 'V Xicbo;ls ll2nry, Brownin~s Haker ~oses, farmer, Roundwyck