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7 536 P.ARHAM. SUSSEX. [KELLY S P ARHAM is a parish, 3 miles north-east from Am- brought from the church of St. Irene, at Constanti berley station and 4 miles south-east from Pulborough nople, were worn by the defenders of the Palreologi station, on the Horsham and Ford Junction branch of against the Turks in 1452; there are also good examples the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, 10 south- of gold and silver plate, enamels and ivory carvings; east from Petworth, and 54 from London, in the North Queen Elizabeth is said to have visited Parham in 1593; Western division of the county, hundred of West the North park contains one of the few heronries now Easwrith, petty sessional division and county court dis- existing in this country. Baroness Zouche is lady of trict of Petworth, union of Thakeham, and in the rural the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various; deanery of Storrington, and archdeaconry and diocese subsoil, sand, clay, rock and chalk. The chief crops of Chichester. The church of St. Peter is of stone, are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 1,284 acres; principally in the Perpendicular style, and has a belfry, rateable value, £928; the population in 19II was 83 in · containing one bell, and a curious leaden font. The the civil parish and 219 in the ecclesiastical parish register dates from the year 1536. The living is a rec- (which includes Rackham). tory, net yearly value £79• with residence and 9 acres Letters from Pulborough arrive at a a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; of glebe, in the gift of Baroness Zouche, and held since sundays, 8.t.=; a.m. Storrington is the nearest money 1894 by the Rev. Oakley Gynn, who resides at the order & telegraph office rectory, Rackham. Parham Park, the property and Wall Letter Box at Rackham, cleared at 7.45 a.m. & residence of Baroness Zouche, is an Elizabethan man- _ p.m. week days; sundays at . a.m sion, occupying a site of great beauty at the foot of the 5 45 7 45 South Downs, in the midst of a picturesque park of soo RACKH.AM is a civil parish, but in 1899 ~ackham was acres, well stocked with deer; it is built of chalk faced transferred for ecclesiastical purposes from .Amberley to with stone, and the late 1593, with the arms of Queen Par ham. The area is r,oor acres; rateable value, £86g; Elizabeth and her motto "Semper eadem," occur on the the population in rgu was 136. wall at the upper end of the hall; the gallery is 16o Public Elementary School, Rackham (mixed), built in feet long and 18 wide, but only 13 feet high; leading 1872, with residence, at the sole cost of the late Lord out of it is a small chapel: the north and east sides are Zouche, for the additional use of the parishes of of earlier date ; the courtyard measures 180 feet 8 Parham, Greatham & Wiggonholt ; it will hold 100 inches from east to west and 125 feet from north to children ; Miss Ellen Louise Curtis, mistress south~ in its centre is a fountain supplied with water Letters from Pulborough arrive at 8.30 a.m. week days from the neighbouring hills; the collection of ancient & sundays. .Amberley, about r mile distant, is the armour here is very fine, and some of the specimens, nearest telegraph & money order office P.ARH.AM. RACKH.AM. Daughtrey Peter, farmer Zouche Baroness, Parham park Gynn Rev. Oakley (rector), Parham Packham Annie (Mrs.), apartments, rectory Mill house COMMERCIAL. Lucas Percival Packham Frederick,farmer & assistant Gatley Thomas, farmer, Springhead Wailer Edmund, Spring house overseer, Mill house Wailer Edmund, estate agent to Willis Henri Smith Samuel. miller (water) Baroness Zouche COMMERCIAL. West Charles, farmer Allin William & Son, Rackham farm PARTRIDGE· GREEN, see West Grinstead. :P ATCHAM is a parish, pleasantly situated, 3 miles some pasture. The area is 4,425 acres; rateable value, north from Brighton on the road to London and on the £29,592; the population in rgrr was 1,463. verge of the South Downs, constituting Dean hundred, in the Mid division of the county, rape of Lewes, union WITHDE.AN is a pleasant hamlet in the parish of ·of Steyning, petty sessional division of Hove, Brighton Patcham, a mile and a half north from Brighton, of county court district, and in Patcham rural deanery, which it may be considered a suburb. Withdean Hall, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. the residence of Henry Charles Goddard esq. is a build The church of .All Saints is of flint with stone facings in ing in the Late Tudor style, erected in r86r. There are the Early English and Decorated styles, with some Per· also several other residences, including Withdean Court, pendicular portions, and has a tower with spire contain- the residence of Eldred V. M. Curwen esq. Here is bhe ing 3 bells; there is a curiously carved stone monument Convent of Our Lady of Lourdes, which has a chapel to Richard Shelley esq. 1594, and brasses to Ann, wife of open to the public . .Anthony Stapley, 1 637, and to many others of this The names of residents are given under Bdghton name ; the stained east window is a memorial ; the MOULSECOMBE is a hamlet in this parish, 2 miles church was restored in 1883-4, at a cost of £,517, when a south-east. wall painting of the "Doom " was discovered, and a Sexton, George Maskell, jun. south aisle was added in 1898; there are 350 sittings. Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Harriett Harris, sub- The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a postmistress. Letters are received through Brighton vicarage, net yearly value £216, with 1! acres of glebe & delivered at a.m. & r.zo & 6. p.m. Box cleared and residence, in the gift of trustees and held since 8 30 d h R J h p s· M .A f S at 9 a.m. & 1.50 & 7·35 p.m. ; sun ays, 9·35 a.m. r9o 8 b Y t e ev. 0 n °1 e Imeon · · 0 e1 wyn Letters for Withdean are received through Brighton College, Cambridge. Patcham Place, erected in the & delivered at a.m. noon & . & . p.m. 7 12 5 30 7 15 early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is situate on Wall Letter Box cleared at a.m. & 1 • & .40 p.m.; the Downs, and flanked by a hanging wood, intersected sundays at a.m. & _ p.m9 55 7 9 7 45 with walks and bounded by the road from London to Wall Letter Box, Tongdean, cleared 8 a.m. & r. o & 6 Brighton; it is now occupied by Mrs. Julian Schreiber. 3 The Marquess of .A.bergavenny K.G. who is lord of the p.m.; sundays, 8 a.m manor, the trustees of the late Nathaniel Kemp, Mrs. Police Station, Sergt. George Gillham, & 2 constables Curwen and B. T. Rogers-Tillstone esq. are the chief Public Elementary School (mixed), opened roth May, landowners. The soil is chalk; subsoil, chalk. The 1877, & enlarged in rgo2, for 160 children; Richard chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips, with Phillips, master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Denman Jn. The Knoll, Withdean rd Jennings David James, Kenilworth, Ainsworth Thomas, Harwood, Tong- Dewhirst Miss, Hill brow,Tongdean la Tongdean lane dean road Duncan Chas. .Abbingsworth, Tong- Kershaw Mrs. Tongdean, Dyke Road Batten Mrs. Shawholme, Dyke Road dean road avenue avenue Edmunds Harry, Moulsecombe place King Col. Charles Wallis C.B.,M.V.O. Bentfield Edward P. Glebelands,With- Field Charles A. Hillside Woodlands, Withdean road dean road Fraser Major Campbell E. Western Kingham Thomas Chapman, Silver Bevan-Lewis William, Elsinore, Dyke Withdean Beech, Wit.hdean road Road avenue Fraser Capt. Alexander Bruce S., J.P. Lade Mrs. The Priory Biggart Hu~h • .Sherne ho.Withdean rd Western Witbdean Lea William Chater, Cransley lodge, Blasius Karl Heinrich Wilhelm, High Gait Hugh Miller, Elmcroft Dyke Road avenue down, Dyke Road avenue Gilkes John Harry, Wychcote, Dyke Lucas Thomas Pennington, Lugan, Bowley Albert,Fairbaven,Dyke Road av Road. avenue Tongdean avenue Browne Waiter Herbert, Ballantrae, Harris Joseph, Meadowside Lybbe Mrs. The Den, Dyke Road aven Tongdean road Hayward Mrs. Stanton lodge, Dyke Marriovt Edward, I Colebrooke road Carman George, Rasta, Tongdean lane Road avenue Musgrove .Alfred, The Pynes, Dyke Chaplin Mrs. Tudor house, Dyke Hill Francis Henry, Heron's court Road a¥enue . Road avenue Iredell Lieut.-Gen. Francis Sihrubb, Neat Charles George, The Beacon, Clayton A. J. Dyke lo. Dyke Road av Furze court, Dyke Road avenue Tongdean road Dell Hy. The Gables, Tongdean road IJackson Miss, The Cot. Church field N ewington Caleb R. K. Sunnyside .