DI&ECT9lt Y.] SUSSEX. • WESTBOUR~E.

the northern portion of the parish, containing about 230 forwarded to the British Museum. Rowliell House, the seat people, was attached for ecclesiastical purposes to the neigh- of Charles Munro Sandham >r.P. and Highden, are both bouring parish of •Ashington. The church of St. Mary, pleasant mansions, situated upon high ground and eoni­ formerly an edifice of Early English date, was rebuilt (with manding extensive and beautiful prospects over the sur­ the exception of the tower) in 1867, at a cost of £z,6<:X:J, and rounding country. The land chiefly belongs' to Charles is now an edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated Munro Sandham J.P. the Duke of Norfolk 'K.G. and the Rev. styles, consisting-of chancel, nave, aisles Chichester, nearest money order & telegraph offica is at Storrington Hastings, Lewes and Steyning, and belonging to the reigns National School (mixed), built in z867 & since enlarged, of Edward the Confessor an.d Harold II. : these coins, col~ for 110 children; average attendance,gg; Thomas Stroud, lected by Mr. Cripps, the postmaster pf Washington, were master -r .Andrewes Col. William Gilly R.H.A., Charman Thomas, market gardener & Harrison Geo. Edwd. farmr.Church ho J.P. Rock-Washington · deputy registrar of births & deaths Jackson Jesse, farmer GodmanMaj.-Gen.Rd.Temple,Highden for sub-district, Thakeham union. Jenner George, market gardener I Hard Mrs. Eve cottage Coote Alfred SI. miller (wind),Rock ml Juden James, market gardener Knight Rev. Jn. Walker M.A. Vicarage Dyer Joseph, grocer & draper Knight Edmund, market gardener Ransome Thomas, Clematis house Ede John, l:!lacksmith Knowles Charles, farmer Sandham Charles MunroJ.P.Rowdellho Floate Herbert, lime burner Merritt Charles, farmer COMMERCIAL. Goatcher Adolphus, nurseryman Mitchell Wm.H.grocr.drpr.&Post office Bristow Edwin, farmer,Chancton farm Goatcher William, nurseryman, Rock Pattenden Jas. timber agnt.The Grotto Brooks Thomas, shoe maker Gocher RJbert, mark~t gardener Terry Henry & Son, brick makers Butcher William, market gardener Gocher Thomas, market gardener Wallace George (exors. of), timber mers {:;barman John, shoe maker Golds James, market gardener Wallace William, market gardener Clear Michael, farmer Green Charles, blacksmith I Woolgar William; Frankland Ar~s P.H • ·wESTBOURNE, in Domesday" Borne," is a village 1 of the patients. Adsdean is the residence of R. B. Wallis .and large parish which gives its name to a hundred and Wilson esq. ~nd The Chantry of the Rev . .1. H. Mee M.A., union, 7 miles west from Chichester and about 1 mile north D.Mus. The principal landowners are the Earl of Dartmouth, irom Emsworth station on the West Coast branch of the George Wilder esq. who is lord of the manor, Lord Lecon­ L. B. & S. C. railway, its wesMrn limit being a small stream field, the Rev. John Henry Mee M:. A. of Kettel Hall, Oxford, oQr bourne, called the Ems, separating it from Hampshire; the Rev.Edward Melford Mee M. A. rector oi Crawley, Robert it is in the South Western division of the county, Chich- Belford Wa.llis Wilson esq. and Mr. Albert G. Hipkin. The -ester rape, petty sessional division and county court district, soil is rich loam ; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, rural deanery of Boxgrove (second division) and archdeaconry barley and oats. The area is 4,423 acres of land and 561 and diocese of Chichester. The church of St. John the .water i rateable value, £9,648; the population in 188r was Baptist is an ancient edifice, chiefly of Perpendicular date, 2,44'3, including 97 officers and inmates in the workhouse. consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches . · I .ALDSWORTH1 1 mile north; HERMITAGE, mile south and and an embattled western tower with timber spire, added ih WoODMANCOTE, north-east, are tithings belonging to this 1770, together with the peal of 6 bells, by George ( Montagu ), parish: ~DSDEAN; LUl\ILEY, half a mile south; GosnEN :2nd Earl of Halifax, and then of Stansted: the tower also GREEN, I mile south ; Sr:NDELLS and P R!ORS LE.\SE, I~ miles .contains a clock : the stained east window was presented by east, are other places. the Rev. John Hanson Sperling, a. forme-r rector, the west I window by Admiral Sir Provo Williarn Parry Wallis G.C.B. N UTBOURNB and P!UNSTED are included with Southbourne and there are others erected as memorials to General Old field ecclesiastical parish. , I {x863), Catherine Mundy, of Holly Bank, Hants, relict of Parish Clerk, William Poate. Edward Miller Mundy esq. of Shipley Hall, Derby; and to Sexton, John Todman. the Rev. Henry Garret Newland and the Very Rev. John Mee, late rectors and vicars of W estbourne ; there are also PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity &. Insutance Office.­ monuments to George Wollaston (1665) and Anna his wife Charles Bullock, reeeiver. Letters arrive from Ems worth { I68I ), Thomas Pryme, rector ( 1678 ), George Sedgwick •st 6.30 a. m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 9·5<'J a. m., & (!678), and Christopher Spencer ( 1705), formerly vicars; 7·30 p.m ..John Needham M.A. rector (1741), Lieut.-Col. Cathcart ... . WESTBOURNE UNION. (1775), Henry Barwell esq. ( 1785), Richard Barwell of Stan- -~ ..sted Park ( I8o4), .Alicia, wife of Col. Oldfield, of Oldfield Board day, every alternate friday, at 1:1 a.m. all the Lawn, in this parish, who· died in the citadel of Plymouth, ., workhouse, .February 5th, IB48, and Adeline, her daughter (1849) : in The Union comprises the following parishes :-Bosham, the nortb. porch is a large beam, on which is carved the run­ , Chidham, Colllpton, East Marden, Funtington, North :ning horile of Arundell, with the oak sprig and other badges, Marden, Ract~JAt. Stoughton, Up Marden, Westbourne, and a shield with the arms of Fitzalan impaling Grey : the West Dean & West Th.orney; the population of the union -church was restored in r863, at a cost of£,2,000, and a~ain in in 1881 was 7,421; rateable value in 1890,£36,938 189oat a further cost of about [.500 :·the chancel screen :is Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, James ~f oak; with metal gates, and there is a remarkably fine organ: William Loader Cooper, Queen street,' Emsworth the northern approach to the church is throngh a fine Treasurer, Edward Hanson, London & County Bank, .avenue ef yew trees, planted in 1530 by Henry (i"itzalan), Chichester '• Lord Maltravers, afterwards 18th Earl of Arundel K.G.: there Collector of Poor Rates, Alfred Rawlins, Westboume are 500 sittings. The registers commence in I550 and are Collector to Guardians, Stepbeu Smitht Westbourne perfect to the present time. The living, formerly a sinecure Relieving Officer for the Union, Stephen Smith, Westbourrre rectory and vicarage, is now a rectory and vicarage in medi­ Vaccination Officer, Charles Routledge, Westbourne. eties, average tithe rent-charge£ 325, net yearly value£ 176, Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. t district-, Thomas with two houses and glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Mee,of The Chan­ Palmer Stephens L.R.C.P. Bdin. Emsworth; No. 2 district, ~ry, Westbourne, and held since 1884 by the Rev.Lloyd Batley Arthur Edl! ard Buckell M.D. Chichoster; No. ~ distrjct, Birkett :u:.A. of Trinity College, Oxford ; the tithes are di­ Harry Harlock L.R.C.P.Lcmd. Singleton · Tided between the incumbent and the Dean and Chapter of Superintendent Registrar, James William Loader Cooper, Chichester. There is a Cemetery of 1 ~ acres situated north­ . Etnsworth; deputy, Charles Barnham, Emsworth' . -east of the village, formed in L86o, and having a small chapel: Registrar of Births & Deaths, Josepll Trudgett,Westbonme; · it is under the control of a Burial Board of 9 members. A deputy, Stephen Smi\h, Westbourneo · 1 • ~harity of about £so yearly, left by will, dated April ~4, 1627, Registrar of Marriages, George Alberot BrMkfield, Emsworth by Henry ~mith of Wandsworth, alderman of London, who The Workhouse, a collection of plain brick buildings, will died 3rd January, r628, is for bread, clothing and general hold 22oinmates; Rev.l''rederick Henry Arnoldlii.A., LL.B. aid to the poor. St.Faith's Convalescent Home for ro women chaplain; Thomas Palmer Stephens L.R.O.P.Edin. medical and children is mainly supported by Mrs.Ernal Smith, of the officer ; Raymond Banning, master ; Eli~beth Catherine Oaks ; the expenses being in part met by the contributions .Banning, matron