Rumboldswyke, Sussex

Historical Description

Rumboldswyke, a parish in Sussex, 1 mile from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and partly within the SE side of Chichester city. Post town, Chichester. Acreage, 652; population, 1497. Hornet hamlet is in the parish. The Teresian convent of Mount Carmel was erected in 1872. It can accommodate twenty-one nuns. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £180 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church has been enlarged and restored.

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 Rumboldswyke from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rumbold's-Wyke (St. Rumbald))

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