Southbourne, Sussex

Historical Description

Southbourne, an ecclesiastical parish in Sussex, 1¼ mile from Emsworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R., with a post office under Emsworth; money order and telegraph office, Emsworth. The parish was formed in 1878 out of Westbourne. Population, 1107. It forms a ward of Westbourne parish council, and returns seven members to the council of fifteen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £196 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style.

Maps

Online maps of Southbourne 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