Coombes, Sussex

Historical Description

Coombs or Coombe, a parish in Sussex, on the river Adur, 1½ mile S by E of Bramber station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 2½ miles SSE of Steyning. The parish is situated in a deep and sheltered valley of the Downs. Post town, Shore-ham; money order and telegraph office, Shoreham. Acreage, 1280; population, 86. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £180. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is in the Early English style. It was shortened in 1724.

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 Coombes from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Coombes 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