Compton, Sussex

Historical Description

Compton, a parish in Sussex, near the boundary with Hants, 5 miles W of Rowlands Castle station on the L. & S.W.R., and 10 NW of Chichester. It has a post office under Petersfield; money order and telegraph office, Harting. Acreage, 1864; population, 268. The manor is the Cum-tune of Alfred's will. The living is a vicarage, united with Upper Marden, in the diocese of Chichester; joint value, £364. The church is transition Norman, was restored in 1849, and has a very ancient screen. In 1881 detached parts of the parishes of East Marden and Stoughton were annexed to this parish.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Maps

Online maps of Compton 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