Appledram or Apuldram, Sussex

Historical Description

Appledram or Apuldram, a parish in Sussex, on the E side of Chichester Harbour, 1½ mile from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 2 miles byroad SW of Chichester, which is the post town, and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 937; population, 144. A farmhouse near the church was part of a castle which William Ryman was stopped in building in the time of Edward II., and the rest of the materials were used in erecting the Campanile or bell tower that bears his name at Chichester. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chichester; value, £154. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is Early English, was carefully restored in 1877, and is particularly worthy of notice.

Administration

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

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Appledram or Apuldram from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Appledram (St. Mary))

Newspapers and Periodicals

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• 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