Ford, Sussex

Historical Description

Ford, a parish in Sussex, on the river Arnn, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 61 miles from London, and 2¼ SSW of Arundel, which is the post town. Acreage, 474; population of the civil parish, 102; of the ecclesiastical, 731.' The living i is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester, with the vicarage of Yapton annexed; joint value, ,6240 with residence. Patron, ( the Bishop of Chichester.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ford from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ford 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