Sidlesham, Sussex

Historical Description

Sidlesham, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the head of Pagham harbour, and 3½ miles S of Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post,. money order, and telegraph office under Chichester. The parish includes part of Almodington tithing, and comprises. 3960 acres; population, 920. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £110 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is Early English in style, and was restored in 1890. There is a Wesleyan chapel erected in 1878.

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 Sidlesham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sidlesham 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