Yapton, Sussex

Historical Description

Yapton, a parish in Sussex. The parish lies 3½ miles SW of Arundel, and 2 miles from Barnham Junction on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post and money order office under Arundel; telegraph office, Barnham station. Acreage, 1791; population of the civil parish, 666; of the ecclesiastical, 731. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester, with Ford annexed; net value, £245. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is mainly Early English, and there is a small Congregational chapel.

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 Yapton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Yapton 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