Easebourne, Sussex

Historical Description

Easebourne, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the river Rother, 1 mile NE of Midhurst station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 WNW of Petworth, was once a market-town, and has a post and money order office under Midhurst; telegraph office, Midhurst. The parish comprises 4214 acres; population of the civil parish, 1392; of the ecclesiastical, 1546. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in the time of Henry III. by John de Bohun, and some remains of it still exist. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Egmont. The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1876, and contains an alabaster effigy of Sir David Owen, who died in 1542, ½nd a marble monument of Lord Montague, who died in 1591. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a mission room, and a village club. The workhouse for Midhurst district is in Easebourne.

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 Easebourne from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Easebourne 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