Felpham, Sussex

Historical Description

Felpham, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the coast, 2 miles NE of Bognor station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bognor. The parish includes also the hamlets of Flansham and Ankton. Acreage, 1878 of land and 174 of foreshore and water; population, 724. The low lands here are liable to inundations by the sea. The poet Hayley inhabited a villa near the centre of the village, and was buried in the churchyard. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value£104with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church has portions of various periods, with a Later English tower; contains a marble tablet to Hayley, with inscription by Mrs Opie; and has been repaired. The churchyard has a monument to Cyril Jackson, the early preceptor of George IV., and dean of Christchurch, Oxford. The Bognor coastguard station is situated here.

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 Felpham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Felpham 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