06 Sep 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 petty sessional division and county court district of Chichester, union of Westhampnett, and in the rural deanery of Selsey and archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. The Selsey Tramways Company have stations at Sidlesham and Chalder, and cars are run in connection with London, Brighton & 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 1566. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £123, with 15 acres of glebe and residence in the gift of the Bishop of Chichester, and held since 1916 by the Rev. Francis Arthur Haines M.A. of Hatfield Hall, Durham. Here is a Weslyan 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 some weekly, and the residue for apprenticing fatherless children. The Ecclesiastical Commisioners, who are lords of the manor, Joseph Godman esq. the Dean and Chapter of Chichester, W. J. Whittle’s trustees and William Stacey 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 ££5,864; population 1n 1911 was 884.
Parish Clerk, Allen Hobgen.
Post, M. O. & T. Office. Miss Ellen Theresa Stevens postmistress. Letters arrive from Chichester.
Post Office Sidlesham Common James Peter Bull, sub-postmaster. Letters through Chichester. Sidlesham is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant
Letter boxes - Church Lane, Highleigh & Mill Hamlet
Police Constable - Walter G. Southerden
The school is controlled by 6 managers; James G H Wallace. Correspondent, Chichester; H. W. Newell, of Bognor, attendance officer
Public Elementary School built in 1877 & enlarged in 1908 ; accommodation for 210 children ; 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 James, Holmwood
Bailey Mrs Greenwood House
Balls James Willshire, Mill View
Barford Joseph
Chambers Miss, Highleigh
Fuller Arnold T Daughtry’s
Gilbert Charles, Highleigh house
Griffith John G. St Mary’s
Haines Rev. Francis M.A. (vicar) Vicarage, Chalder
Hardy Charles, Highleigh
Hay Thomas
Hocking Mrs. New Haven cot
Le-Hardy Mrs. The Barn
Mayhew Percy Crashe, Highleigh House
Moore Mrs. J. W. Ivy grange
Parsons Frederick George, Holmleigh
Rushbridge Alfred, The Apiary
Towes George, The Aviary
Tozer Miss H.
Tranchant Mrs. Rose Cottage
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 James Douglas, farmer, The Elms
Alywin Thomas Harold, farmer Greenwoods Farm
Alywin William Augustus, farmer Chalder Farm
Bailey Edward, farmer, Highleigh
Binstead Walter, beer retailer
Bull James Peter, shopkeeper, Post Office The Common
Combes John, baker
Dibley Hy. Market gardener Highleigh
Dredge Frederick Anchor P.H.
Earwicker Charles, farmer
Grant Edward (Mrs), dressmaker
Harding George, beer retailer, Highleigh
Hellier John, farmer Highleigh
Hoare & Sons. shopkeepers
Hobgen Allen, farmer & parish clerk Mapson
Hooper & Wiseman, grocers
Hunt Brothers, farmers, Highleigh
Hunt Henry, farmer, Rookery Farm
Parsons Augustus E., draper
Peach Charles Henry, market gardener
Richards Ernest George, drapers’ traveller
Shepherd George, smallholder
Shrubb Alfred, farmer, Oakhurst
Shrubb George, farmer
Skinner Annie (Miss), frmr. The Common
Smart Wm. Geo., farmer, Street End
Stacey William, farmer, Eastons farm
Stevens Ellen Therese (Miss), shopkeeper & Post Office
Strange Grove Doman, farmer. Keynor farm
Wheatley George, fruit grower
Whittington Harry, farmer
Yeatman Charles, Crab & Lobster PH
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