Bury, Sussex

Historical Description

Bury, a parish and a hundred in Sussex. The parish lies on the river Arun, 1½ mile NW of Amberley station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5 miles SSE of Petworth, includes the tithing of West Burton, and has a post office under Pulborough (R.S.O.); money order office, Arundel; telegraph office, Amberley (R.S.) Acreage, 3408; population, 531. Bury Hill here is crowned with a large barrow. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £330 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. The church has been restored. A working men's club and reading-room was opened in 1880.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bury from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Bury 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