Warnham, Sussex

Historical Description

Warnham, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 37 miles from London, and 2 NNW of Horsham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Horsham. Acreage, 4960; population, 1060. Warnham Court is the seat of the Lucas family. Field Place, Northlands, and Warnham Lodge also are chief residences; the first was the birthplace of the poet Shelley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £270 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone in the Early English style; in 1886 the building was thoroughly restored and the chancel rebuilt. A village hall and club was erected in 1892.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Warnham from the following:

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

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