Eartham, Sussex

Historical Description

Eartham, a parish in Sussex, on Stane Street, 4 miles from Barnham station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5½ NE by E of Chichester. It contains part of Seabeach, and its post town is Chichester; money order and telegraph office, Slindon. Acreage, 1539; population, 138. Eartham House was the seat of the poet Hayley, inherited from his father, passed hy sale to the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, and has been greatly altered. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £184: with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is chiefly Early English, but has a Norman chancel arch, and it contains a very fine monument, by Flaxman, to a son of Hayley, and a tablet to Huskisson.

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 Eartham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Eartham 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