Thakeham, Sussex

Historical Description

Thakeham, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on rising-ground, 5 miles from Billinghurst station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Pulborough; money order and telegraph office, Storrington. The parish includes Greenhurst hamlet, and the detached tracts of Muttons Farm and Spear Hill, and contains the district workhouse. Acreage, 2941; population of the civil parish, 486; of the ecclesiastical, 494. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £435 with residence. The church is partly Early English.

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 Thakeham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Thakeham 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