31 Aug 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 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 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 £111 , with 15 acres of glebe, 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. 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 principal landowners are the Ecclesisastical Commissioners who are lords of the manor, the Pagham Harbour Reclamation Co. J. Godman Esq. of Hascombe, Godalming The soil is loam; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,954 acres of land, 6 of water, 8 of tidal water and 212 of foreshore; rateable value £5,261; the population in 1891 was 920
Police Constable - George Harwood
Parish Clerk - Allen Hobgen; deputy Dennis Faith
Post, M. O. & T. O., T. M. O., Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office - Miss Ellen Theresa Stevens, postmistress. Letters arrive from Chichester at 7.20am; Sunday, 7.20am; dispatched at 6pm; Sunday, 11.25am
Post Office, Sidlesham Common - James Peter Bull, sub-postmaster. Letters from Chichester arrive at 7.10am; dispatched at 6.25pm; Sunday, 11.45am. Sidlesham is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant.
Wall letter box, Church Lane, letters collected, 6.20pm; Sunday, 11.45am; Highleigh, cleared 5.35pm; no Sunday collection
A School Board of 5 members was formed 28th May 1874; James G. H. Wallace, clerk to the board & attendance officer, Chichester.
Board School, built in 1877, for 192 children; average attendance, 107 boys & girls & 35 infants; Frederick John Holdaway, master; Mrs Mary Anne Holdaway, mistress
Carriers - Selsey carriers pass through daily.
Private Residents
Andre James Edward Felix L.R.C.P.Lond. The Gorse
Apps James, Laurelstine House
Buckeridge Walter A.S.I., M.S.A. Ivy Grange
Dutton Rev. William Thomas M.A. Vicarage, Chalder
Ewens John, Highleigh
Hemmett Mrs. Rose Cottage
Hicks Norman, Chalder
Hobgen Thomas C.
Knowles William Henry, The Retreat
Marshall Miss, St Mary’s
Marshall Robert, King’s House
Pearse Mrs. Highleigh
Richards Ernest George
Stevens Herbert, Johnson’s
Towes Miss, Mill View
Wood Rev. Montagu Couch M.A. Church Cottage
Wood Charles, Street End
Commercial
Apps Samuel & John, grocers, provision dealers, bakers & butchers
Apps Arthur, shoe maker
Andre James Edward Felix M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond., physician, surgeon & admiralty surgeon & agent & medical officer & public vaccinator, Manhood district, Westhampnett union, The Gorse
Aylwin Benjamin, farmers, Ham farm
Bailey David, farmer, Ham
Bailey Edward, farmer, Highleigh
Binstead Alfred, fisherman
Bull James Peter, blacksmith & shopkeeper, post office, The Common
Clayton James, farmer
Dibley Henry, market gardener, Highleigh
Earwicker Charles, farmer
Faith Dennis, deputy parish clerk, High House
Fowler Thomas, beer retailer & shopkeeper, Highleigh
Godwin Arthur, beer retailer
Grant Alfred, fisherman
Habin Harry, farmer
Harding George Welcome, beer retailer
Harris John, baker
Hellier John, farmer, Highleigh
Hoare Martha (Mrs), blacksmith, & shopkeeper, Almodington
Hoare Walter, blacksmith
Hobgen Allen, farmer, & parish clerk, Mapsoms
Hunt James, farmer, Highleigh
Napper Edwin, farmer, Almodington
Norkett William, wheelwright
Parsons Augustus E. draper, clothier, haberdasher, hosier & boot & furniture stores
Pearse Walter, farmer
Prior William, Crab & Lobster
Ransom Lot, shoe maker
Rushbridge Alfred, bee farmer, The Apiary
Sharp Charles, Anchor P.H.
Shrubb George, farmer
Skinner Annie (Miss), farmer
Stacey William, farmer, Eastons farm, Almodington
Stevens Walter & Herbert, grocers, butchers, bakers
Towes James, farmer
Towes William (Mrs), farmer
Wheatcroft William, boot maker
Wood Charles, farmer, land agent & timber surveyor, Street End
Woodland John, horse trainer
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