Southwater, Sussex

Historical Description

Southwater, a village in Horsham parish, and a chapelry partly also in Shipley parish, Sussex. The village has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 42 miles from London, and 3 from Horsham. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Horsham. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 658. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Horsham. The church was built in 1850, and is a small stone edifice in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Maps

Online maps of Southwater 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