06 Sep 2006
Transcribed by Stacey Gardner
Birdham is a parish 4 miles south-west from Chichester, in the south-western division of the county, hundred 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 Arundel and Porstmouth Canal passes through the parish and terminates at Chichester Harbour. Electricity is available. Water is supplied by the Chichester Corporation. The church (supposed to have been dedicated to St James) is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and has a tower containing 2 bells; the church was restored in 1883, and the roof repaired in 1937; there are 250 sittings. The register dates from 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £410, with residence and 4 ½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Chichester, and held since 1935 by Rev. Victor Dunphy M.A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge, who is also the rector of West Itchenor.. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and Mr. William Francis Rudwick is the principal landowner. The soil is loam subsoil, Bracklesham clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Area 1,814 acres of land and inland water; population in 1931 was 459.
Post, M. O. & T. Office – Letters through Chichester.
Southdown Motor Omnibus pass through daily.
Private Residents
Blaauw Bertram W. St. Leger, Broken Stone
Brook Charles Edward, Fir Tree Cottage
Clerke Maj. A. Basil Holt C.B.E. Birdham Holt
Coldicott Capt. Henry R.S. court Barn
Dawrey Misses, Kinross
Dunphy Rev. Victor M.A. (rector), The Rectory
Farne Misses, The Elms
Leete Erenst, Holt Place
Marler Leslie, Moorings
Mason Hugh Alan, Longmeadow
Nixon Alfred John, Itchenor Gate House
Pavlovitch Alexander, Martin’s Five
Stirland Walter, Walwyn
Wallace William T. The Spinney
Commercial
Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over.
Allman E. & Co. motor engineers T.N.267
Allman Arthur, grocer, & post office. TM230
Bailey E. L., boot repairer
Bedford Frederick, Bell P.H. TN394
Birdham Estate Office TN221
Birdham garage, motor engineers TN269
Birdham Yacht Club (Wilfred Ward, sec.) TN273
Bowley Harold, farmer, Mill farm TN283
Catton Charles William, farmer, chaffinches farm
Chase James, jobbing gardener
Chichester Yacht Co. Ltd TN281
Cook Thomas, farmer, Hundred Steddle farm
Haskins Arthur, dairyman, Coppice farm
Haskins Bernard Arthur, builder & decorator, church Lane TN282
Hotel P.H. (James Pennicott)
Kewell Brothers haulage contractors, Claytons farm TN386
Kewell Maud (Mrs), farmer Claytons farm
Lock Stores (Mrs A Henly, proprietress), shopkeeper TN217
Ling James, blacksmith
Lipscombe E. J. motor garage TN269
Lyndhurst John Bellas, farmer, Carthagena
Ravenoak School (Miss J. C. Corbett N.E.U. principal), for boys & girls under 14 years TN203
Read Brothers, haulage contractors TN264
Read George, famrer, Northleigh TN264
Rudwick William Francis, farmer , Manhood End TN272
Shrubb M. R. (Miss), smallholder
Small J. K. (Miss), farmer, Broomer farm
Snipe (Misses M. M. & B. G. Stringer, proprietresses), restaurant TN286
Stearn Albert W. builder, contractor & decorator; plumbing & sanitary work, Itchenor Green. T.N.215
Wheatley W. G. nurseryman, Grenvillea TN260
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