Birdham, Sussex

Historical Description

Birdham, a parish in Sussex, on Chichester harbour, and on the Arundel and Portsmouth Canal, 4 miles SW of Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Chichester, which is the telegraph office; money order office. West Wittering. Acreage, 1810 of land and 182 of foreshore and water; population, 453. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, J6300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church dates from the close of the 14th century, and was restored in 1883.

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.

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 Birdham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Birdham 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