Rudgwick or Ridgewick, Sussex
Historical Description
Rudgwick or Ridgewick, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the river Arun, 6 miles NW by W of Horsham, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R. 45 miles from London, and a post and money order office under Horsham; telegraph office at railway station. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bucks Green, Haven, Rowhook, and Tismans Common. Acreage, 6022; population, 1177. The parish council consists of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is a handsome edifice with a low tower, and has some fine stained glass windows, two of which were put up in 1866 as memorials of the Braby family, and a good organ. 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.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Rudgwick Holy Trinity | |
| Hundred | West Easwrith | |
| Poor Law union | Petworth |
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 Rudgwick or Ridgewick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rudgwick, or Ridgewick (Holy Trinity))
Maps
Online maps of Rudgwick or Ridgewick 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: