Wisborough Green, Sussex

Historical Description

Wisborough Green, a parish, with four hamlets, in Sussex, on the Arnn and Wey Canal, 3 miles W by N of Billingshurst station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6 NE of Petworth. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Billingshurst Acreage, 8862; population of the civil parish, 1629; of the ecclesiastical, 899. Harsfold Manor, Laker's Lodge, and Wisborough House are the chief residences. Drungswich Place was a seat of the early Bishops of Chichester. The living is a vicarage, with Loxwood annexed, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is Norman and Early English, with a tower and spire. A church is at Loxwood. The Petworth workhouse is in this parish.

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 Wisborough Green from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wisborough-Green (St. Peter))

Maps

Online maps of Wisborough Green 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