Graffham, Sussex

Historical Description

Graffham, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the Downs, 4 miles SW of Petworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4½ SE of Midhurst, It has a post and money order office under Petworth; telegraph office, Selham. Acreage of the civil parish, 1714; population, 407; of the ecclesiastical, 625. The view northward above the village is very grand. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Wool Lavington, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £270 with residence. The church was thoroughly restored in 1874, and has a tower and spire.

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 Graffham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Graffham 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