Shermanbury, Sussex

Historical Description

Shermanbury, a parish in Sussex, 2 miles E of Partridge Green station on The L.B. & S.C.R., and 6 NNE of Steyning. It has a post office under Henfield; money order and telegraph office, Henfield. Acreage, 1917; population, 356. There is a parish council consisting of six members. Ewhurst was the seat of the Peverels, and has left a gateway of early Edwardian date. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £220 with residence. The church is an ancient building in the Early English style.

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

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Shermanbury from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Shermanbury 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