Coldwaltham, Sussex

Historical Description

Cold-Waltham, a parish in Sussex, on the river Arun, 2 miles SW of Pulborough station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4½ SE of Petworth. It includes the hamlet of Watersfield, and its post town is Pulborough, under Petworth; money order and telegraph office, Pulborough. Acreage, 1233; population, 338. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chi-chester; value, £56. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The chancel is in the Decorated style, the nave Norman. The church was restored and enlarged in 1870. There is a Congregational chapel at Watersfield.

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 Coldwaltham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Coldwaltham 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