Selham or Sulham, Sussex

Historical Description

Selham or Sulham, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 62 miles from London, and 3½ E of Midhurst. Post town, Petworth; telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 423; population of the civil parish, 48; of the ecclesiastical, 101. The manor belonged to Earl Godwin, went at the Conquest to Earl Montgomery, passed to the Arundels, the Montagues, and the Poyntzes, and belongs now to the Earl of Egmont. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £150 with residence. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is Norman, and has been restored.

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