West Grinstead, Sussex

Historical Description

Grinstead, West, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village has two stations on the L.B. & S.C.R., one called West Grinstead, and the other Partridge Green. It is 44 miles from London, and 6 S of Horsham. The parish includes also the hamlet of Partridge Green, and is in Horsham district. It has a post and money order office under Horsham; telegraph office at railway stations. Acreage, 6757; population of the civil parish, 1582; of the ecclesiastical, 1578. Grinstead Park belonged formerly to the Carylls, and was visited in their time by Pope, when he wrote his " Rape of the Lock." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £550 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is ancient but good, and contains monuments of the Powletts, the Carylls, and the Burrells.. There are a Roman Catholic chapel and a Dominican priory, There are several fine seats in the neighbourhood.

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 West Grinstead from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grinsted, West (St. George))

Maps

Online maps of West Grinstead 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