19/10/2006
Transcribed by Stacey Gardner
Woollavington is a parish 4 miles south-west of Petworth, and 4 ½ south-east from Midhurst, in Rotherbridge hundred, Arundel rape, and Easebourne union, with 2,370 acres, and a population of 418 in 1841. The Income Tax assessment £2,100; the living is a rectory united with Graffham, in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford, value £164 per annum. Woollavington House, situate in a large well-wooded park, is a handsome mansion, occupied by Mrs Byles.
Letters received through Petworth.
Byles Mrs. Woollavington House
Mauning Archdeacon, Rectory
Luff Thomas, farmer, Westerland
O’Connor Cornelius, farm bailiff
Welch John, farmer
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