Edburton, Sussex

Historical Description

Edburton, a parish in Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs, 5 miles E of Steyning, and about 1½ mile from The Dyke station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It includes the hamlet of Fulking. Post town, Beeding (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Henfield. Acreage, 2647; population, 359. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £240 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, of the Early English period, has a carved pulpit of the time of James I., and a circular leaden Xorman font. It was restored in 1878.

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 Edburton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Edburton 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