2l36 COLGATE. SUSSEX. , • roo being free. The register dates frotn the year x871. ·The PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, living is a vicarage, net yearly >valu~ £ r6o, with residence1 railway station.-Edward Randall, receiver. in the gift of Col. James Clifton Brown, and held since xBgo Letters arrive from at 6.50 & 10.35 a.m,; dis­ by the Rev. Alfred Cecil Wright 'l'.A.K.C.L. Holmbush is the patched .at 2.45 & 6 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 9·'40 a.m. ;.. seat of Col. James Clifton Brown J.P. The principii!} land· dispatched 6.30 p.m., Rusper is the nearest money owners are Col. Brown J.P. and Philip Saillard esq. The soil order office ; the telegraph office is at Faygate railway i& sand and clay ;t subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, ~tation oats, roots and hay. The population in r88r was 481. LETTER Box, placed near the church, is cleared at 5.20 BAYBUSH is a tithing in the parish of Colgate and consists p.m~~ sundays, 9.15 a.m of Holmbush and Bewbush. · Church School (mixed), built for roo children; average Sexton, Richard Gates. attendance, 76; Joseph Henry Peadon, master Brown Col. James Clifton J.P. (2nd AllinghamWalter,farmer,Hopper'sfarm Jupp Samuel, blacksmith Brigade I.ancashire Division Royal Budgen Caroline, cowkeeper Langley Habley John.~on, grocer Artillery), Holmbush Gasson John, farm bailiff to Col. James Randall Edward, farmer, Home farm Ferguson -,New Barn Clifton Brown J.P. Holmbush Randall Edward, grocer. Post office Gladstone Richard, Kilnwood Gent & Lingfield, ornamental brick, Whitehurst John, farm bailiff to R. Wright Rev. Alfred Cecil T.A. •.II:.C.L. tile & pottery manufacturers, Holm- Heath esq. Bewbush manor Vicara~ bush pottery works. See advert Ashby William, beer retailer COMPTON is a parish and pleasant village on the Hamp· rental of £ro yearly, and is for widows: T. H. Phipps' gift of shire border, ro miles north-west from Chichester, 7 south­ £3 3s. yearly, the proceeds of £ros New £3 per Cents. is di­ east from Petersfield, d north-east from Rowland's Castle vided between the vicar of Compton and the rector of North station (on the South Western railway) and 5 .south from Marden, for preaching a sermon in their respective parishes Rogate and Harting station (over the hills), in the South on Good Friday. Little Green Manor house, formerly the Western division of the county, Westbourne hundred and residence of the Peckhams, was repaired and considerably union, Chichester petty sessional division, rape and county enlarged in 1874 and is at present occupied by John A. court district, rural deanery of Boxgrove (second division), Miller esq. Admiral Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Horn by archdeaoonry and diocese of Chichester. In t88r by the G.C.B., J.P. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The " Divided Parishes Actr" 1876 (39 and 40 Vict. e. 61 ), de­ soil is chalky ; subsoil, chalk with flints. The chief crops are tached parts of the parishes of East Marden and Sto~hton wheat, barley and oats. The area is r,864 acres; rateable were annexed to this parish. The church of St. Mary is an value, £r,250; the population in r88r was 289. edifice of flint in the Early English and Decorated styles, con­ Sexton, William Smith. , sisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north PosT OFFicE.-Hubert Hollamby, receiver. Letters arrive porch and a western turret containing 2 bells: it was r~built from Petersfield at 9 a. m. ; dispatched at 9.40 a. m. & 5.30 in 1849 and contains some monuments to the families of p.m. week days & sundays at ro.rs a.m. The nearest Peckham and Phipps : there are 200 sittings, 122 being free. money order office is at South Harting & tel£>graph office The register commences in the year 1558. The living is a Rowland's Castle station vicarage, united with the rectory of Upmarden, average tithe rent-charge £390, joint gross yearly value £42s, with resi- National School, built in 1848, for 104 children; average deuce and 34 acres of glebe in Upmarden, in the gift of and attendance, 85; Charles Philip Slee, master; Miss Mary held 11ince 1854 by the Rev..~ George A.ugustus Langdale Ann Slee, mistress. The school has an endowment of X..A.. of ,St. John's College, Cambridge. Thomas Penn's £9 6s. 5d. yearly, arising from bequests by Harriet charity of £3 48. rod. yearly is for widowers, and ·Sarah Phipps & Miss Colyer Dawkins, now amounting together Phipps', of £4, for widows not in receipt of parish relief; to £3n 2s. rod these amounts are derived from money invested jn New and CARRIERS.-George 'rwine, to Chichester, mon. wed. & sat. Reduced £3 per Cents.: Mary Cornellert by will, dated 1734, & to Ems worth, tues. & thurs. ; Thomas Rogers, of South [.roo to be invested in freehold land, whicl;l :produces a Harting, passes through to Chichester, tues. thurs. & sat Langdale Rev. George Augustus lii.A.. Blackmore George, carpenter Norris Henry, farmer Vicarage Bray Wm.Bernard,farmr.Compton frm Porter Thomas, shoe maker Langdale Rev. Horaca Marmaduke Burgess Henry, bricklayer R.ussell Robert, blacksmith [curateJ Chase George, build~r Restall William James, grocer Miller John A. Little Green Manor ho · Cobby John, grocer Smith Edward, farmer, Cowdown farm Franklin Willia.m,Coach & Horses P.H TaylorWilliam, underwooddealer,Pond '~ COllllKERCIAL. Hedgcock Owen, wheelwright Twine George, carrier Benford George ( exors. of), farmers Hollamby Hubert, grocer, Post office • I COOM.BS is a parish, 55 miles from London, 2 south from The living is a rectory, net yearly value £r6o, in the gift of Bramber railway station and 7 north-east from , Lord Leconfield, and held since 1870 by the Rev. Edward and on the river Adur, in the Mid division of the county, Benjamin Foreman B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, Steyning hundred, petty sessional division and union, Bram- who resides at Lancing. The whole of the parish is occupied ber rape,. Worthing county court district, rural deanery of by Mr. Walter White, farmer, and is the property of Lord Storrington \fourth division) and archdeaconry and diocese of Leconfield, who is lord of the manor. The soil is principally Chichester. The church (name unknown) was shortened in chalk; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, I724,andisnowasmallandancientstructureofflintandstone oats and turnips. The area is r,297 acres; rateable value, in the Early English style, consisting of chanrel, nave, south £928 ; the population in r881 was 71. porch and a. small western turret containing one bell= there p · h Cl k J h B 11 is a Saxon window in the south wall .of the nave, which is ariS er ' 0 n oxa · divided from the chancel by a rude Norman arch: the corn- Letters through Shoreham, which is the nearest mo_ney order m union plate includes a chalice of silver, dated r688 1 there & telegraph office, arrive at 8.15 a. m · are roo sittings. The register dates from the year :1538. The children of this parish attend the school at Bramber 1 t ' • White Walter, farmer, Applesham farm •

• • • COPTHORNE is an ecclesiastical parish,formed Jury 19, there are 370 sittings; all being free. The register of bap.. x88r, from the civi-l parish of Worth, the ecclesiastical parish tisms dates from the year 1877 ; the others from x88r. The of Down (in Sussex) and the civil parishes of Burstow living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value £173, in the gift of and Horne (in Surrey): it is situated 2! miles north from Lady Lampson, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Winfield Worth, si north-west from East Grinstead and 2f north· Cooper M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Rowfant, the seat east from station, on the London, Brighton of Lady Lampson, is a mansion in the Elizabethan style. and South Coast railway; in the Northern division of the The principal landowners are Sir George Curtis Lampson county, East Grinstead petty sessional division and county bart. and Lewis Maynard esq. The soil is clay and sand; court district, rural deanery of Lewes third division, arch- subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley ; deaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. The. church the area is about 6 square miles ; the population in r881 of St. John the Evangelist, built in 1877, is a structure of was 982, brick, with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style, 1 Parish Clerk, Edward Payne. consisting of chancel. nave, aisles, vestry and a tower at the 1 PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B., Annuity & Insurance Office.-Jacob north-west angle of the nave, with spire, and containing one Allingham, sub-postmaster. Letters through Crawley bell~ the nave is divided from the aisles by arcades of four arrive at 8 a. m.-; dispatched at 10 a.m. x.3o & 6.ro p.m. arches ) the stained east window was presented by George The nearest telegraph office is at Crawley Down • and Henry Lampson esqrs. Jmd the west window WALL, LET'rER Box at Copthorne Bank; letters collected at by G. La.mpson esq. in memory of Charlotte Lampson; 8.40 a. m. & 6.25 p.m •