Pagham, Sussex

Historical Description

Pagham, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the coast, 3½ miles WSW of Bognor station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 SSE of Chichester. It has a post office under Bognor; money order and telegraph office, Sidlesham. The parish contains also the hamlets of Lagness and Rosegreen, and includes the tithings of Aldwick, South Mundham, and Nytimber. Acreage, 3886; population, 887. It has a parish council consisting of nine members. Aldwick Place is the seat of the Grant family. The old harbour was reclaimed some years ago. An extraordinary feature at the mouth of it is the marvellous accumulation of sand and shingle, covering 50 or 60 acres. The reclaimed land is now farmed by the Harbour Company. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early English, and comprises nave and chancel, with tower and spire. An archiepiscopal palace stood a little SE of the church, and has left some indistinct remains. There is a coastguard station.

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 Pagham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pagham (St. Thomas à Becket))

Maps

Online maps of Pagham 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