Walberton, Sussex

Historical Description

Walberton, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, 1¼ mile NE of Barnham Junction station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3 miles WSW of Arundel. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Arundel. Acreage, 1733; population of the civil parish, 628; of the ecclesiastical, 665. Walberton House and Avisford House are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £285 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is Norman and 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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Walberton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Walberton 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