31 Aug 2006
Transcribed by Stacey Gardner
Sidlesham is a village and large parish, in the western division of the county, hundred of Manhood, rape, and county court district of Chichester, union of Westhampnet, and in the rural deanery of Box grove (3rd division) and archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. The village is near the south-eastern boundary of the parish, on the road to Chichester, and about 5 miles from that city. The church of St Mary is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of nave and transepts and has a tower containing 2 bells: in the church is a monument to George Taylor, of Almodington, and Rebecca his wife. The register dates from the year 1566. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £182 10s. , with 17 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Chichester, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Joseph Heptinstall Marshall M.A of Worcester College Oxford. A charity of £155 7s. 7d. yearly, left by Lady Pickeringe, is applied to the support of 5 poor widows, each receiving a small sum weekly, and the residue for apprenticing. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1878. The principal landowners are the Ecclesisastical Commissioners who are lords of the manor, the Pagham Harbour Reclamation Co. J. Godman Esq. The soil is loam; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,139 acres; rateable value £7,106; the population in 1881 was 946.
Parish Clerk - Samuel Chaffer
Post, M. O. & T. Office & Savings Bank - John Apps, postmaster. Letters arrive from Chichester at 8am; dispatched at 6.50pm;
A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1877; John Skinner, clerk
Board School, William Roger Billing, master; Miss Taylor, infants mistress
Carriers - Selsey carriers pass through daily.
Private Residents
Dutton Thomas M.B.
Earwicker Mrs
Hobgen Mrs, Mapsons
Marshall Rev. Joseph Heptinstall M.A. (vicar)
Rushbridge Miss Anne, Marine Villa
Rushbridge Miss Jane
Rushbridge Richard
Stevens William
Stunnington Mrs
Towes Miss
Commercial
Alwin Benjamin, farmer, Ham Farm
Apps James, shoe maker
Apps John Pink, baker & grocer & post office
Aylwin Ebenezer & Benjamin, farmers, Chalders farm
Bailey David, farmer, Ham
Bailey Edward, farmer, Highleigh
Beacher William, shopkeeper & beer retailer
Cardy Edmund, shoe maker
Clayton James, farmer & manager to the Pagham Harbour Reclamation Company
Combes Conrad, farmer, Keynor farm
Davis Godfrey, blacksmith
Dutton Thomas M.B. physician & surgeon
Fogden George, farmer. Ham
Fogden William (Mrs), farmer
Harris John, baker
Hawkins William, beer retailer
Henson Noah, farm bailiff to Thomas Bushby esq.
Hoare Edward, blacksmith, Almodington
Hoare James, florist
Hoare Joseph, blacksmith
Hobgen Allen, farmer, Mapsoms
Hobgen Herbert, farmer & landowner, Hocust farm
Hunt James, farmer, Highleigh
James Charles, farmer
Mant Charles, beer retailer
Napper John, blacksmith
Norgate William, wheelwright
Prior William, Crab & Lobster
Ransom Lot, shoe maker
Rushbridge Alfred, bee farmer, The Apiary
Rushbridge Thomas, builder & farmer, Highleigh
Sharp Frances (Mrs), Anchor
Shrubb Frederick George, farmer
Skinner John, farmer
Stevens Walter & Herbert, grocers, butchers, bakers, maltsters & brewers (est. 1823)
Stevens George, farmer
Towes George, builder
Towes James, farmer
Towes William, farmer
Wheatcroft Louisa (Miss), school
Wheatcroft William, boot, shoe & harness maker
Wilkins William, smack owner
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