Stedham, Sussex

Historical Description

Stedham, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, on the river Bother, 2 miles W by N of Midhurst station on the L. & S.W.R. and L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Midhurst; money order and telegraph office, Midhurst. Acreage, 2493; population of civil parish, 558; of ecclesiastical, 528. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belonged to Earl Godwin, passed to the Earl of Montgomery, the Earl of Southampton, and Lord Selsey, and belongs now to the Scrimgeour family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £180 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1850.

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 Stedham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Stedham 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