Patching, Sussex

Historical Description

Patching, a parish in Sussex, 2½ miles NNE of Angmering station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4½ E by S of Arundel. It forms a hundred in the rape of Bramber, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Worthing. Acreage, 1767; population, 273. Truffles are said to have been found in the neighbouring beech woods. The living ii— a rectory, and held with Clapham in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £228 with residence. The church is an interesting specimen of Early English, and was restored in 1889..

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Patching from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Patching 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