New Fishbourne, Sussex

Historical Description

Fishbourne, New, a parish in Sussex, on Chichester harbour, and 1½ mile from Chichester station on the L.B. & b.C.R, It has a post office under Chichester; money order and½ telegraph office, Chichester. Acreage, 597; population, 323.. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £114 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Early English. There is a Methodist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for New Fishbourne from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fishbourn, New (St. Peter and St. Mary))

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