Northchapel, Sussex

Historical Description

Northchapel, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on a gentle declivity, adjacent to an affluent of the river Arun, 2 miles S of ths boundary with Surrey, 5 SE of Haslemere station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 NNW of Petworth. It commands a good view of the downs of Sussex and Surrey, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Petworth. Acreage of parish, 3923; population, 742. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to Lord Leconfield. Broadlands is a seat in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £220 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church, which has been almost entirely rebuilt, is plain, and has a W tower. There are two alms-houses with £45.

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 Northchapel from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Northchapel 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