Lurgashall, Sussex

Historical Description

Lurgashall, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 5 miles NW of Petworth, and 5 SE ef Haslemere station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Petworth; money order office, Lodsworth; telegraph office, Fernhurst. The parish includes a detached portion called Bittlesham Cottage, and contains places called Eundhurst, Dial Green, Hill Grove, Old Mill, Boxland, Diddesfield, and Eamsfold. Acreage, 4814; population of the civil parish, 762; of the ecclesiastical, 768. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £380 with residence. The church is a small and ancient building of stone in the Early English style.

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 Lurgashall from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Lurgashall 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