Pulborough, Sussex

Historical Description

Pulborough, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the river Arnn, and on the Roman road from Regnum to Londinum, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 50 miles from London, and 9 N by E of Arundel. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 6395; population, 1787. There is a parish council of thirteen members. The village consists chiefly of one long street, and has a weekly corn market on Friday, a cattle market on alternate Mondays, and a fair on Easter Tuesday. Numerous Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £1240 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is Early English, and lias been well restored; has a W tower, and contains a Saxon font, a few brasses, and numerous monumental inscriptions. A handsome reredos has been erected. There is a Congregational 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 Pulborough from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Pulborough 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