Itchingfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Itchingfield, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 1 mile W of a junction of railways, 3 miles from Slinfold station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 SW by W of Horsham, and it is connected with the hamlet of Barn's Green. Post town, Horsham. The parish includes both the village and the hamlet, and comprises 2519 acres; population, 492. A dense forest was around the parsonage in the early part of the 18th century, and gave refuge to some of the persons attainted for the Scotch rebellion of 1745. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; tithes commuted at £408 with residence. The church is Saxon or Early Norman, has a rude low timber tower, seemingly of the Late Decorated period, and contains a handsome modern font; the whole building was very thoroughly restored in 1866. There is a Congregational chapel at Barn's Green.

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 Itchingfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Itchingfield, or Hitchingfelt (St. Nicholas))

Maps

Online maps of Itchingfield 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