Ifield is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1568
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Society of Friends/Quaker.
Adjacent Parishes
- Charlwood
- Rusper
- Upper Beeding
- Crawley
- Slaugham
- Worth
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
IFIELD, a village and a parish in Horsham district, Sussex. The village stands on the river Mole, 1½ mile NW of Crawley r. station, and 7 NE of Horsham; and has a post office under Crawley.
The parish comprises 4,116 acres. Real property, £5,086. Pop., in 1851, 1,112; in 1861, 1,307. Houses, 248. The property is much subdivided.
The manor belongs to Lord Rodney and Capt. Pipon. Ifield Court House, an old moated building, was recently taken down; and a new house, not within the moat, was erected. Ironstone was formerly dug and smelted.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £217. Patron, the Rev. R. N. Blaker. The church is early decorated English; comprises nave, ais1es, and chancel; and contains recumbent statues of a Knight Templar and his lady.
There is a Quakers’ chapel. A Franciscan monastery was recently erected.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Sussex, Ifield – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Burials in the burial ground of the Society of Friends, Ifield, 1865-1867
Author: Society of Friends (Ifield, Sussex)
Monumental inscriptions from Friends burial ground, Ifield
Author: Shelley, Jean; Burchall, M. J. (Michael John); Society of Friends. Ifield
The parish church of St.Margaret’s, Ifield, Sussex, monumental inscriptions
Author: Crawley History Group (Sussex); Brown, A. O.; Bracher, P.; Ellman, Ernest
England, Sussex, Ifield – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Ifield, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Sussex, Ifield – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census Ifield
Author: Young, Brenda, 1951-
England, Sussex, Ifield – Church records ( 8 )
Births, marriages and burials, 1655-1837
Author: Society of Friends. Dorking and Horsham Monthly Meeting (Surrey and Sussex)
Bishop’s transcripts of Ifield, 1606-1893
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ifield (Sussex)
Burials in the burial ground of the Society of Friends, Ifield, 1865-1867
Author: Society of Friends (Ifield, Sussex)
Ifield parish registers
Author: Hartley, J. A.; Short, Margaret J.; Church of England. Parish Church of Ifield (Sussex)
Parish register transcripts, 1568-1759
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ifield (Sussex); Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Burchall, M. J. (Michael John); Trist, G. A.; Callow, J. H.
Parish register transcripts, 1568-1837
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ifield (Sussex); Burchall, M. J. (Michael John)
Parish registers of Ifield, 1568-1901
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Ifield (Sussex)
Transcripts of Bishop’s transcripts of Ifield, Sussex, England, 1606-1759
Author: Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Ifield (Sussex)
England, Sussex, Ifield – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Manorial court records for Ifield, 1534-1949
Author: Manor of Ifield. Court (Sussex)
England, Sussex, Ifield – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Ifield, 1780-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Sussex)
Administration
- County: Sussex
- Civil Registration District: Horsham
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Lewes
- Poor Law Union: Horsham
- Hundred: Burbeach
- Province: Canterbury
