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338 FRAN'f. SUSSEX. Vrotherwood Ma.ry .A.. (Mrs.), farmer Hall William Hamilton M.R.C.S.E., O'Hollaran Bros. farmers Hawkenbury L.R.O.P. Lond., surgeon, & medical Pomfret Jesse, farmer, Rushley fa.rm Brown Ebenezer, wheelwright officer & public vaccinatm, Frant dis- Pratt Edward, farmer, Frant forest Carrington Willia.m, tailor trict, & surgeon to the Oddfellow s' Pratt Wm. da.irymn. Strawberry gdn1 Olckerell John, farm bailiff to Hon. Friendly Society, Stone hous~ Rayner William. draper John .Ashburnham Head Ernest, grocer & tea dealer & Richardsoon William, bui:der Conservative .Association (Percy Long· po~t office, Bells Yew green Robertson Joseph, butcher, Frant gl'D. hurst, hon. s.ec) . Hoadley Daniel, fat mer, Haw ken bury 8aunders Jn. farmr. Ivy Lodge farm Convalescent Home for G'hildren (Alfd. IHobden Willism Robert, .Abergavenny Slatter Thomas William, carpenter Keene, hon. sec. ; Miss E. J. Shep·. .Arms hotel; first class accommoda- Smith Trayton, pork butcher pard, matron), Hawkenbury tion for families; lighted by elflr- 8nowden Francis, farmer Coster Thomas, High Rocks hotel tric light; horses & carriages Spencer John J. farmer, Walterdown Delves David, family breao. & biscuit Hollamby .Alfd. nurse•rymn.Hawkenbry Swift Em m a (Mrs.), dress maker baker & corn merchant James Waiter, carpenter Thomas Goo. frmr. Spratts Brook fm Dunkley Edwd.frmr.Court Lodge frm Jos:in Thomas, farmer, Frant forest Turner W. & Son, timber merchants. Ellis Henry, fa.rmer, Hawkenbury Lawrence John, farmer, Lightlands Frant station En[)"lish Charles, tailor Longhurst Bros. frmrs. Manor Ho. fm Twort Herbert, boot maker b . • Evenden Waiter, saddler Longhurst The l\ilsses, apartments, Ware Geo. & Sons, brewers & aerate<~ Fayers James, farmer, Brick house Manor House farm water manufacturers Fitlld Harry, smith, R.S.S. by prac. Luck Bros. builders Ware Goorge, sec. to Tunbridge Wells & South Eastern Counties Agriculr tical & vet. examination Marchant Henrv,• farmer & brick ma . Foster Henry, shopkeeper Benhall mill tural Society, LMfwood Funnel! Henrv, farmr. Palmers farm Matherwick George, dairyman Weston Wm. apartments, Stone cottge Gray George," farmer, Frant forest Mepham John, apartments, Frant grn Whiley Thomas (Mrs.), Brecknock Gregory .A.lbert, tailor, Frant green Mooney .Annie (Mrs.), stationr.Post off Arms P.H. Frant station Grinbam William, boot & shoe maker, FRISTON is a small parish, situated on the coast and shire K.G. were the largest contributors: there are I5() the South Downs, 4 miles west from Eastbourne and 14 sittings, 140 being free. The register dates from the south-east from Lewes, in the Southern division of the year 1546. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of county, hundred of Wil;ingdcm, Pevensey rape, Hailsham East Dean, joint net income £282, including 14 petty sessional division, Eastbourne union, Lewes and acres of glebe here, in the alternate gift of the Bishop Eastbourne county court district,. rural deanery of and the Dean and Chapter of Chichester, and h~ld Pevensey (first division), archdeaconry of Lewes and dio since r88r by the Rev. John Waiter Parrington M.A. of cese of Chichester. The church of St. James is a small Christ's College, Cambridge. who resides at Eastdean, and ancient edifice of flint in the Early English style, Here is a coastguard station called "Crowlink." Friston consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, north transept Place, once the property of the 'Selwyn family, has bee~ and a western tower containing one bell: the window restored, and is now the property and residence of Francis in the transept was painted by Mrs. Owen (late Miss Maitl~nd esq. '.Dhe Ecclesiastical Omnmissioners are lordt Gilbert) : there is a :r6th century brass in the nave to a of the manor, and the Duke of Devonshire K.G. and Fras, member of the Selwyn family, formerly owners of Fris Maitland esq. are the principal landowners. The soil ir ton Place : the church was restored and re-opened in stiff clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are. wheat, 1892; during the restoration the Selwyn monuments barley and oats. The area is 1,439 acres of land and ~fl which nearly blocked up the chancel were removed by of foreshore; rateable value, £693; the population m faculty to the transept, their removal disclosing circular rBgr was 92. arches on both sides to the east of the chancel arch and Sexton, William Miorris. containing north and south windows, which have now been re-opened and glazed: at the cast end above the Letters received throogh Ea.stbour~e. which is the near· altar is a curious arched recess; a vestry was also est telegraph officoe, arrive at 8. ro a. m.; dispatched added and the old north door re-opened as an en from East Dean at 5 p.m. which is the nearest money trance here : the church was also re-seated: the oi"der office cost of the restoration amounted to £862, to which Tl::.e children of this place atknd the school at East DeaD the Ecc:esiastical Commiss•ion and the Duke of Devon- Coastguard Station, Crowlink De Costobadei F. P. Crowlink Maitland Francis James, Friston Place FULKING, Folking or Faulking ('in Domesday Foch Post Office.-Edward Willett, sub-postmaster. Letter$ inges), formerly a hamlet of Edburton, has been consti through Heeding R.S.O. arrive at about 8.30 a.m. & I tuted a separate civil parish under the "Local Govern p.m.; box cleared at 7-IS a.m. & 7.50 p.m. week days ment Act of 1894·" The Crown is lord of the manor. only. Po"Stal orders are issued here, but not paid, The soil is green sand, clay and part gravel; subsoil, Henfield & Upper Heeding are the nearest' money order chalk and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats offices; Pyecombe is the nearest telegraph office, J and potatoes. The a.rea is 1,415 acres; rateable value, miles distant · [,r,2r8; the population is included in that of Edburton . .A.tkins Robert, The Croft Muzzel Frank, farm bailiff to Frank Stevens George, carpenter, Laurel ho COMMERCIAL. Strivens, Pathorn Strivens Frank, Shepherd & Dog P.H. Baldey .Annie S. (Mrs.), confectioner Page N apthall, farmer, Fulking manor & farmer Haddon Sarah (Mrs.), apartments Sayers Henry, market gardener Willett Edward, grcr.& baker, Post off llills Thos. S. farmer, Fulking farm Soper Alfred, farmer, Clappers FUNTINGTON is a parish, bordering on the Downs, tributed in money; Beale's and Green's charities, t() 2 miles north-by-west from Bosham sto.rtlion on the gether £4 a year, derived irom rents, are similarly dis London, Brighton and South Coast railway (Portsmouth tributed. Oakwood is the seat of Francis Baring Du line), and 5 north-west from Chichester, in the South Pre esq. J.P. ; the house was built eal'ly tin the present cen Western division of the county, Bosham hundred, Chi tury by Wm. Dearling. W.oodend is the residence of G€n. chester rape, petty sessional division and county court Sir Henry Percival De Bathe bart. D.L., J.P.; and North district, Westbourne union, rural deanery of Boxgrove lands, of Lieut.-Col. John Gustavus -Crosbie. Funting (second division), and archdeaconry and diocese of Chi ton House, the property and residence of John .!nder'tOII chester. The village, situated in the western part of Greenwood esq. was formerly the residence of Admiral of the parish, is small but pleasant. The church of St. the Fleet, Sir Provo Wallis G.O.B. who died here in 1892, Mary is of stone, in the Later English style, and has a in his rozst year. Lord Gifford V. C. of Old Park, Chiches tower containing 2 bells : the chancel has a fine stained ter, who is lord of the manor, F. Baring Du Pr8 window, and there are others, and there is an ancient esq. Gen. Sir H. P. De Bathe bart. and Charles Alexander tomb of Sussex marble, probably to rthe Scardevyle family: Hall-Hall esq. of Onlverwood, Cross-in-Hand, are the prin· the church was restored in r859, and affords 500 sittings, cipal landowners. The soil is rich loam ; subson, marL ~so being free. The register dates from the year 1550. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is The living is a vicarage, net yearly value about £2r5, 3·755 acres of land and 8 of water; rate!>!ble value, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of [5,439; the population in 1891 was 1,o2o. Chichester, and held since 1896 by the Rev. Cyril Walker Densworth, 2 miles south-east and Woodend, 1 mile M . .A. of Keble College, Oxford, and priest vicar of Chich north-east, are hamlets. e~ter Cathedral. Coombs' charity and the poor's land of rsa. I3P· produce together £23 yearly, which is dis- Parish Clerk, Edmund Collins. .