Rusper, Sussex

Historical Description

Rusper, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, 2½ miles NW of Faygate station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5 NNE of Horsham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Horsham. Acreage, 3123; population, 548. The Nunnery is the seat of the Hunt family, and occupies the site of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the time of Richard I. by Archbishop Gervaise, and refounded in 1231 by W. de Braose. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £190 with residence. The church is partly Early English, and was partially rebuilt in 1855.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Rusper from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Rusper 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