Sussex.] Farnhurst

[SUSSEX.] FARNHURST. 1538 POST OFFICE PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Ann Cordy Hare, receiver. Letters COACHES, from BRIGHTON to TUNBRIDGE WELLS, pass are received through Lewes; arrive at 8 a.m. & dispatched through here daily at 5·25. The nearest money order office is at Lewes. CARRIERs pass through here daily, from Brighton to Lewes Parochial School, John Turl, master; Mrs. Ann Cordy LONDON, BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. Hare, mistress ThomaS Cooper, station master :E'AR.NHVR.ST, or FERNH1CRST, signif:Ving a heath or portion of a place of defence taken and destroyed by the woodland track, is in Easebourne hundred, Midhurst Danes in one of their incursions. On one of the ancient union, rape of Chichester, ·west Sussex, diocese and arch maps of this county, it is represented as being suiTounded deaconry of Chicl1ester, and deanery of Midhurst, about by a park paling. The form of the building was quadran 3 miles south from Haslemere, Surrey, on the road to gular, and measured in length 68 feet, and in breadtl1 Chichester, and contains 4,757 acres. Population, in 1851, 33 feet, and the walls were over 5 feet thick: it was removed was 768. The living is a perpetual curacv, value £111 per some few years since. annum, with residence, in the gift of the ·Earl of Egmont; NoRTH Al\:t:BERSHAM. This, though now a tything (Jf the incumbent is the Rev. Edward H. Marriott. The Farnhurst, was originally a hamlet of the parish of Steep, church has a nave and chancel, and shingled spire, and is in Hampshire. By the operation of an Act of Parliament, built in the Early English style. The register commences in known as the" County Boundaries Act," the narrow strip 1547. The manor is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, of land in which this and the hamlet of South Ambersham but is referred to in the grants made to Sir William Fitz stand, running directly from the county of Rants into that william in the reign of Henry VIII., from which time it has of Sussex, became detached from the former and was given descended as part of Cowdry, belonging from time to time to to the latter. For ecclesiastical purposes, this hamlet was the respective owners of that domain. The Earl of Egmont attached to Farnhurst, and South Ambersham passed to-· is now, therefore, lord of the manor. Within this parish, Easebourne, and in all respects it is treated as entirely until a few years since, a ruin of a most interesting character disconnected with the mother parish, except in advantage~; existed; this was the remains of a castellated tower, forming accruing from it to the benefice, which are still paid to Steep. :E"arnhurst. 1 Lucas J olm, farmer Puttick Thomas, grocer Marriott Rev. Edmund Lucas John,jun. miller Slade John & Benjamin, carpenters. COMl\IERCIAL. Luff Edward, farmer, Bridgeland Smith William, wheelwright Bridger J olm, farmer Luff John, farmer Wells George, Spread Eagle Bridger John, relieving officer & registr Luff Richard, farmer, Cooksbridge farm ",-est J ames, jun. farmer Bridger Thomas, farn1er, Collyer's farm Luff,Villiam, sl10pkeeper West J ames, sen. farmer Burt John, Rl'd Lion Madgwick Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer North Ambersham. Uurtis Alfred, farmer Madgwick .Tames, brickmaker COl\UIERCIAJ,. Eldridge John, King's Arms Marriott Edmund, farmer Berry George, maltster &r Greenway Samuel, gTocer Puttick John, farmer, Dolls farm Lucas John, miller, Lowder mill brewe PosT OFFICE.-Edmund Etherington, receiver. Letters aiTive at 9·35 a.m., dispatched at 3·45 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Haslemere :E'BR.R.J:NG, or WEsT FERRING, is a parish 6.5 miles Kingston annexed, joint annual value .£250, with resid!lnce.,. from London, 3 west of Worthing, and 4 east of Little- in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester, and held by hampton, in Poling hundred, rape of Arundel, diocese the Rev. Henry Dixon, M.A. and archdeaconry of Chichester, and deanery of Arundel, HANGLETON is half a mile north; Eaglesden, 1~ miles with 1,070 acres, and a population of 312. The benefice is north-west; Highdown Hill, 1~ mile north. Date of a vicarage, with that of East Preston and rectory of 1 register, 15.58. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I Bennett John (Mrs.), farmer 1\fettensThomas, farmer Bine Mr. Richard Cortis John, farmer Moore Eliza (Miss), shopkeeper Dixon Rev. Henry, M.A. Reward Cornelius, New inn Moore John, bootmaker Henty Edwin, esq. Hide Thos. beer retailer & shoemaker Truster Thomas, farmer Sells Edward Perrionett, esq HoldingHenry,carpenter&parishclerk Winton Thos. shopkeeper & postmaster PosT 0FFICE.-Thomas Winton, receiver. Letters from 'Vorthing arrive at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at ·worthing :E'J:NDON, or FINDEN, is a pleasant village5 miles south- r register dates from January lOth, 1556, old style. The west from :::;teyning, and 5 north from Worthing, in a valley principal houses are Muntham Court, the seat and property of the Downs, in Brightford hundred, rape of Bramber, of the Marchioness of Bath ; Findon Place, the property and Thakeham union, West Sussex, diocese and archdeaconry of residence of ,V. ,V. Richardson, Esq.; and Cissbury, the Chichester,and deanery ofStorington, containing4,336 acJ.Oes, property and residence of H. Wyatt, Esq. Cissbury Hill, and a population of 559 in 1851. The chur~h is of a date prior the site of an ancient encampment, both Celtic and Saxon, to the Conquest, subsequently dedicated to St. John the as W€11 as Roman,'is in this parish. There is a fair for sheep, Baptist. The living is a vicarage discharged in the King's &c., on the 14th September, and a lamb fair on the 12tlr books, in the patronage ofMagdalene College, Oxford, who July. grant a lease of their rectorial house, glebe and tithes to the CoB DEN is 2 miles north-west; Highden, 2 miles north_; "\icar, of the gross annual value of £750, nett value £500. North End, 1 mile north. The Rev. George Booth, B.A., is the vicar. The earliest PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Thynne Lord Henry, Muntham house Holmes George, beer retailer & baker , Basks Rev. Gerald, M.A. [curate] Wright Mr. Alexander, Lyall'scottage Holmes William, shoemaker Bath Marchioness, Muntham house Wyatt Hugh, esq. Cisbury Howell Thomas, butcher Booth Rev. George, B.A. Vicarage Miles James, bricklayer Bright Mrs. Harriott coMMERCIAL. Mitchell Sarah (1\Irs.), shopkeeper Bright 1\Ir. John Brown Martha (Mrs.), blacksmith Moodie Jane (Mrs.), Gun inn Dyson 1\Ir. Alfred ChurcbillEdmnd.&John, boot&shoe mkr Moore SarahAnn(Mrs.), schoolmistress Holmes Miss Comber Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper l\foore Wm. parish clerk& schoolmaster Holmes l\Irs Goater William, training stables NicholJs George, beer retailer Liptrott Miss Graves James, coal dealer Piper Robert, grocer Naish 1\lr. George, Kingswood villa Hards George, farmer Ratley George, shoemaker Richardson William 'Vest brook, esq. Hare Robert, farmer & assessor of taxes Sayers Isaac, miller Findon place Higgins J oseph, farmer, 1\luntham farm Steers Edward, baker PosT OFFICE.-Alfred Hewett, receiver. Letters from Worthing at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest. money order office is at Worthing "WEST :E"J:R.:LB is a village, parish, and union, which the range of downs. The grounds adjoining are well stocked consists of eight parishes, half a mile south of the road from with game, and there are ponds equally well stocked with Lewes to Eastbourne, 4 miles south-east from Lewes, and 2 fish. The church of St. Peter is a large ancient building, in from Glynde station, in the hundred of Totnore, rape of the Gothic style, with nave, chancel, and north and south Pevensey, East Sussex, diocese of Chichester, archdeaconry aisles; a chapel on the north side of the chancel contains and deanery of Lewes; the principal point of attraction is several monuments and brasses to the Gage family. The Firle Place, the seat of Viscount Gage, which is a noble living is a vicarage united with Beddingham in l747,joint mansion, but irregular in its architecture, having been built annual value £345, in the gift of the Bishop and Dean and at different periods; it is sheltered on the south and east by Chapter of Chichester, alternately. The Rev. C. E. Hut-.

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