North Mundham, Sussex

Historical Description

Mundham, North, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the Arundel and Portsmouth Canal, 2 miles SE by S of Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and has a post office under Chichester; money order and telegraph office, Chichester. The parish contains also the hamlets of Fisher and Runckton. Acreage, 1892; population of the civil parish, 373; of the ecclesiastical, 560. Runckton House and North Mundham House are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Hunston, in thp diocese of Chichester; gross value, £470 with residence. Thp church is ancient but good, and has a tower; it was restored and enlarged in 1883.

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 North Mundham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of North Mundham 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