Angmering, Sussex

Historical Description

Angmering, a parish in Sussex, on the L.B. & S.C.R., 63 miles from London, and 4 SE of Arundel. It lias a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4557; population of the civil parish, 1014; of the ecclesiastical, 990. Ham Manor, the seat of the Fletcher family, is the principal house in the neighbourhood. New Place, now inhabited by work-people, was the seat of Sir Edward Palmer in the time of Henry VIII., and the birthplace of his three sons, who were all knighted. The living is a rectory and a vicarage- rectory of East Angmering, vicarage of West Angmering- in the diocese of Chichester; value, £230. East Angmering church has disappeared. West Angmering church, excepting the tower and small part of the chancel, was rebuilt in 1852. There are Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

A transcript of the Angmering Parish Register, 1562-1687 is available to browse online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Angmering from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Angmering, East and West (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of Angmering are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer