Slindon, Sussex

Historical Description

Slindon, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 3 miles NNE of Barnham Junction station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3¼ W by N of Arundel. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Arundel. The parish includes the quondam extra-parochial tract of the Gumber, and comprises 2957 acres; population of the civil parish, 539; of the ecclesiastical, 512. The manor was given by the Saxon king Ceadwalla to the archbishops of Canterbury, and passed to the Kempes. Slindon House was built in the 13th century by one of the archbishops; was the deathplace of Cardinal Langton, was rebuilt in the time of Elizabeth by Sir G. Kempe, passed through various bands, and underwent numerous alterations, and is now the seat of the Leslie family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is Early English, was built by Archbishop Anselm, and has been restored. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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 Slindon from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Slindon 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