Henfield Sussex Family History Guide
Henfield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1595
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HENFIELD, a village and a parish in Steyning district, Sussex. The village stands on an eminence, near the river Adur and the Horsham and Shoreham railway, 4½ miles NNE of Steyning; is a picturesque place, with some good specimens of the old Sussex cottage; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post office under Hurstpierpoint, a mechanics’ institute, and fairs on 4 May and 1 Aug.
The parish comprises 4,491 acres. Real property, £9,953. Pop., 1,662. Houses, 320. The property is divided chiefly among eight. The manor belonged, in the Saxon times, to Earl Warbald; was given, in 770, to the bishops of Chichester; had an ancient palace, founded either before or soon after its coming to the bishops; was known, at Domesday, as Hamfeldt; and still belongs to the bishops of Chichester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £412. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is later English, with a massive tower; was repaired in 1855; and contains a curious monumental inscription to a child who died in 1627. There are an Independent chapel, national schools, and charities £16.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Sussex
- Civil Registration District: Steyning
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Lewes
- Poor Law Union: Steyning
- Hundred: Tipnook
- Province: Canterbury