Westham, Sussex

Historical Description

Westham, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village of Westham, as its name indicates, was in Saxon days the west suburb of Pevensey, the great Roman gates of the city of Anderidon, within which Pevensey was built, going out towards the west. It has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and a post office under Hastings; money order and telegraph office, Pevensey. The parish comprises 5024 acres; population, 1140. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The mansion of Glenleigh, situated in this parish, was built during the Elizabethan period, and is of considerable size. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is a large edifice of stone in various styles of architecture, and was thoroughly restored in 1877. An iron church was erected in 1877 by the Duke of Devonshire, and there are a Congregational chapel and almshouses.

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 Westham from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Westham 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