Clapham, Sussex

Historical Description

Clapham, a parish in Sussex, 2½ miles N of Goring station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5¼ E of Arundel. It has a post office under Worthing; money order and telegraph office, Patching. Acreage, 1807; population, 270. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £96 with residence. The church has several brasses and a carved stone monument to members of the Shelley family of Michelgrove in this parish. The monument is to Sir W. Shelley, who was judge in the time of Henry VIII. The church was thoroughly restored in 1873.

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 Clapham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Clapham 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