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Lett~rs through Hellingly S.O. delivered at 8 a.m. & is at Ripe & telegraph office at Berwick railway sta­ 4 p.m tion, about 3 miles distant Pillar Letter Box cleared at 9.10 a.m. & 5·55 p.m.; The children of this parish at·tend the ~chool at Ripe auudays, at 8.50 a..m. The nearest money order office Bolton Mrs. Chalvington house Brook John & Son,farml"IS. Green farm Johnson Jn. bailiff to W. T. Amos esCl Holman Martin Robert, Manor house Deadman Geo. farmer,Lime Kiln farm Matthews William John, farmer, Ne~ lrvine Rev. Richard Harford, Rectory Geall Obed, farmer, Mount Pleasant House farm Jack~on Gi!orge Herbert, The Cottage Gutsell Robert, Yew Tree inn Picknell J oh~ farmer Bolton Ivy (M'I's.), farmer Holman Martin Robt.frmr.Manor frm • NORTH CHAPEL is a village and pari.sh, on the Broadlands is the residence of Mrs. Drysdale. Lord road from to Chichester, upon a gentle declivity, Leconfield, who is lord of the manor, and James Henry commanding a good view of the Downs of Surrey and Baker csq. of Dickhurst, , are the principal Sussex, it being on the Surrey border, 5 miles north landowners. The soil is clay, with subsoil of same. The from , 7 north-east from Midburst, 5 east from chief crops are wheat, oats and some land in pasture. Haslemere (Surrey) station on the London and South The area i11 3,923 acres; rateable value, £2,&)6; the Western railway, and 45 from London, in the North population in 1901 was 745· Western division of the cuunty, ralJe of Arundel, hundred Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A.&. of Rotherbridge, Petworth petty sessional division, union I. Office.-George Pullen, sub-postmaster. Letters and county court district, rural deanery of (Div. Ill.), and archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. arrive from Petworth at 8 a.m. & 12.35 p.m.; dis­ The church, assigned in the Liber Regis to St. Michael, patched at 12.30 & 6.5 p.m.; sunday dispatch, 11.35 but apparently dedicated, in 1546, to St. John the a.m Baptist, was rebuilt in 1877-8, at a cost of £I,gio, and Wall Letter Box, Last Lodge, cleared at 1-40 & 6.30 is of stone in the Early English style, with a tower con- p.m. ; sunrlay, 12 noon taining a clock and 3 bells: the east window and others Wall Letter Box, Fisher street, cleared at 5.50 p.m.; are stained: there are 300 sittings, 18o being free. The sunday, 11.20 a. m register dates from the year 1717. The living is a Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1s35, & rectory, net yearly value £rg8, with residence and 5~ since enlarged for 150 children; average attendance. acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord Leconfield, and held 130 ; Arthur James Ridgwell, master since 1897 by the Rev. George Frederick Bright Assoc. K.C.L. There are two almshouses, built and endowed There. is also a Sunday school endo'l'fed _with £ro a year,. in the year 1s3s, by the late Earl of Egremont (d. 1s4s). der1ved from a sum of £333 6s. Bd. m Consols Barker John Richard, Mitchell park Bridger Mary (Mrs.), laundry, Gospel Lucking Thomas, Swan inn Bright Rev. George Frederick .A.ssoc. green (letters through Haslemere, May WaHer, farmer, Frith hill K.C.L. Rectory Surrey) Newman Kate (Mrs.), builder & con- Drysdale Mrs. Broadlands Brown, Durant & Co. grocers&drapers tractor, decora

• C H I C H E S T E 1{ . CHICHESTER, anciently "Cissan-ceaster," the "fortress within by ranges of lofty elm trees, which, from their of Cissa," is an ancient Roman city, the see of a bishop, very elevated situation, have a beautiful and uncommon municipal borough, head of a petty sessional division appearance, the cathedral being the only object visible and county court district, and a market and union town, above them. The whole extent of the walls, disposed and gives its name to a rape; it is locally situated in roughly in an irregular circle, is about 2,500 yards, or the South Western division of the county, hundred of nearly a mile and a half ; they originally had r6 towers Box and Stockbridge and rural deanery, archdeaconry and four gates, but the former was removed for the sake and diocese of Chichester, and has a station on the of their materials, and the last, having become ruinous. London, Brighton and South Coast railway (Portsmouth were removed in the yeara 1772 and 1783. line), 6g miles from London by railway and 6I by road, The Hundred of Manhood and Tramway, opened 30 from Southampton, r8 from Portsmouth, 10~ from in 18tJ7, starts from the city and terminates at Selsey Arundel, 18 from Worthing, 28~ from Brighton, 63 from Beach. Hastings, 36i from Lewes and 7 from Bognor. A line Various charters have from time to time been granted from Midhurst, 12 miles north, was opened in the year to the city, the earliest now extant being that of King I88I. This city, which is of very remote antiquity, was, Stephen : under the provisions of the latest of these, about the close of the sth century, taken from the granted by James 11. the government of the city is Britons by Ella, whose son, Cissa, rebuilt it; the city vested in a mayor and corporation. By a Local Govern­ is pleasantly situated on a gentle eminence, a few miles ment Order, in 1893, confirmed by the Act 56 and 57 l!outh of the South Downs, and is nearly surrounded by Vict. c. 132, the city was extended by the incorporation. the LaYant, an intermittent stream, which flows at its of further parts of the parishes of Rumboldswyke. base. The port of Chichester is at Dell quay, in the Oving, St. Pancras, St. Bartholomew, All Saints, Sub­ parish of Appledram, about a mile and a half from the deanery and St. J ames (extra parochial) : in I 895 the­ city, and the Chichester canal, formerly a branch of the city was again extended by the inclusion of further Arundel and Portsmouth canal, comes up to its southern parts of Snbdeanery, St. Bartholomew and St. Pancras, 11uburb. The principal streets diverge east, north and which included the new asylum for the county of West 110uth from the ancient Gothic market cross, built by Sussex and the barracks. The city is now divided into Bishop Storey in ISoo. The city walls, extensively re­ three wards, and the whole of the parishes were consoli­ built in the reign8 of Edward Ill. Richard ll. and Henry dated as the parish of Chichester by Local Government VL and left untouched at the Restoration, are lined Board Order, dated 26th March, 16g6. The city has a