Portfield, Sussex

Historical Description

Portfield, an ecclesiastical parish in Sussex, 1½ mile from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It was formed out of Oving parish in 1871, and has a post and money order office under Chichester; telegraph office, Chichester. The bulk of the parish is now incorporated with Chichester, the remainder being in the civil parish of Oving. Population, 1576. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net. value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church, Early English, is a small plain building of stone.

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 Portfield from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Portfield 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