22 Jul 2006
Transcribed by Stacey Gardner
Sidlesham is a village and large parish, on the road to Chichester and 5 miles from that city, in the South Western Division of that county, hundred of Manhood, rape, petty sessional division and county court district of Chichester, union of Westhampnet, and in the rural deanery of Selsey and archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. The Selsey Tramways Company have stations at Sidlesham and Childer, and cars run in connection with the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company’s trains at Chichester. The church of St Mary is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Early English style, and has a tower containing 2 bells: the church was restored in 1890 at a cost of £500, and affords 320 sittings. The register dates from the year 1566. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £115, with 15 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Chichester, and held since 1898 by the Rev. William Thomas Dutton M.A of St John’s College Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1878. A charity of £145 yearly, left by Dame Elizabeth Puckeringe, is applied to the support of 5 poor widows, each receiving a small sum weekly, and the residue for apprenticing fatherless children. The Ecclesisastical Commissioners who are lords of the manor, the Selsey-On-Sea Company Limited, Joseph Godman Esq of Hascombe, Godalming, and the Dean & Chapter of Chichester are the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,169 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable value £5,747; the population in 1901 was 799.
Police Constable Frederick Fairs
Parish Clerk Allen Hobgen
Post, M. O. & T. Office. Miss Ellen Theresa Stevens postmistress. Letters arrive from Chichester at 6.55am & 1.30pm; Sundays, 7.20am ; dispatched at 9.45am & 6.10pm ; Sundays 11.30am
Post Office Sidlesham Common James Peter Bull, sub-postmaster. Letters from Chichester arrive at 6.55 am; dispatched at 6.40am & 6.20pm ; Sundays 11.45am. Sidlesham is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant.
Wall letter box Church Lane letters collected 6.20pm ; Sundays 11.45am
Wall letter box Highleigh cleared 5.30pm ; no Sunday collection.
The school is controlled by 6 managers; James G H Wallace. Correspondent, Chichester; Rees, North Street, Chichester, attendance officer
Public Elementary School built in 1877 & enlarged in 1908 ; accommodation for 210 children ; average attendance, 150 ; Frederick John Holdaway, master; Mrs Mary Ann Holdaway, mistress
Carriers Selsey carriers pass through daily.
Private Residents
Andre James Edward Felix L R C P Lond. The Gorse
Alywin Thomas H
Bailey Mrs Greenwoods
Carless Mrs St Mary’s
Chaffer Mrs Street End
Dutton Rev William Thomas MA (vicar) Vicarage, Chalder
Fuller Arnold T Daughtry’s
Gilbert Charles, Highleigh house
Hobgen Thomas C
Hocking Thos. Gilbert, New Haven cot
Knowles Mrs. The Retreat
Le-Hardy Mrs. The Barn
Moore John W. Ivy grange
Parsons Frederick George, Holmleigh
Rushbridge Alfred, The Apiary
Stevens Alfred J. Highleigh
Towes George, The Aviary
Towes Miss. Mill view
Wakeford George, Wartburg House
Commercial
Andre Jas. Edwd. Felix M R C S Eng., L R C P. Lond. Physician, surgeon, & admiralty surgeon & agent & medical officer & public vaccinator, Manhood district, Westhampnet union, The Gorse
Apps Arthur, shoemaker
Alymore William H , grocer
Alywin Benj. (Mrs), farmer, Ham Farm
Alywin Thomas Harold, farmer Grenwoods Farm
Alywin William, farmer Chalder Farm
Bailey Edward, farmer, Highleigh
Binstead Alfred, fisherman
Binstead Walter, beer retailer
Budd Joseph, wheelwright
Bull James Peter, shopkeeper, Post Office The Common
Carless Geo. P., farmer, The Challens
Combes John, baker
Dibley Hy. Market gardener Highleigh
Earwicker Charles, farmer
Fowler Thos. Beer retailer Highleigh
Grant Arthur & Mark, fishermen
Grant Edward (Mrs), dressmaker
Griffin & Richards, shopkeepers
Harding George Welcome, beer retailer
Hellier John, farmer Highleigh
Hoare John S. Blacksmith
Hoare Martha (Mrs), shopkeeper, Almodington
Hobgen Allen, farmer & parish clerk Mapson
Hookham James, insurance agent
Hunt J. & Sons, farmers, Highleigh
Hunt Henry, farmer, Rookery Farm
Ide William John, collector of poor rates, assistant overseer & clerk to Parish Council
Long William, Anchor PH
Mant Edward, Butcher
Parsons Augustus E., draper
Ransom Walter, shoemaker
Richards Frank, apartments
Shrubb Alfred, farmer, Oakhurst
Shrubb George, farmer
Skinner Annie (Miss), frmr. The Common
Smart Wm. Geo., farmer, Street End
Stacey William, farmer, Eastons farm, Almodington
Stevens Ellen Therese (Miss), shopkeeper & Post Office
Strange Grove D., frmr. Keynor farm
Taylor Fredk. Chas., relieving officer & registrar for births & deaths for Oving dist. West Hampnett Union7
Towes William (Mrs) & Albt. Farmers
Wheatcroft William, bootmaker
Wood Robert, farmer
Yetman Charles, Crab & Lobster PH
Young Men’s Christian Association (James Hookham, sec)
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