Kirdford, Sussex

Historical Description

Kirdford, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on an affluent of the river Arnn, 4½ miles NE by N of Petworth, and 5 W by N of Billingburst station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Billinghurst; money order and telegraph office, Wisborough Green. The parish includes the chapelry of Plaistow. Acreage, 12, 407; population of the civil parish, 1648; of the ecclesiastical, 1364. A detached portion of Lurgashall was annexed to the parish in 1879. Shillingley Park is the seat of Earl Winterton. Nearly one-third of the land is under wood. A limestone of peculiar character, known as Sussex or Petworth marble, has been largely quarried, and is believed to have been worked by the Romans and the Normans. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Plaistow, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £40 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The parish church is chiefly Early English, and has a large tower. The church of Plaistow was rebuilt in 1856.

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 Kirdford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kirdford (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Kirdford 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