Lodsworth Sussex Family History Guide

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Lodsworth is an Ecclesiastical Parish, created in 1773 from a chapelry in Easebourne Ancient Parish, and liberty, with the hamlet of Lickfold, situate halfway between Midhurst and Petworth, 3½ miles from each of these towns and 2 miles north from Selham station on the Midhurst branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, in the North Western division of the county, Easebourne hundred, Chichester rape, Midhurst petty sessional division, union and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Midhurst, and the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester.

By Local Government Order, Dec. 19, 1879, a detached portion of Selham parish, comprising 11 houses with a population of 53, was annexed to this parish. The parish is about 8 miles long and extends over 2,430 acres of land and 12 of water; rateable value, £3,311; population in 1911, 584 in the civil and 538 in the ecclesiastical parish.

Other places in the parish include: Lickfold and Blackdown House.

Parish church: St Peter

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1557
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1572

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

  • Selham
  • Petworth
  • Graffham
  • Tillington
  • Woolavington
  • Lurgashall

Parish History

Lodsworth The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LODSWORTH, a parish in Midhurst district, Sussex; near the river Rother, 3½ miles NE of Midhurst r. station. It contains the hamlet of Lickfold; includes a detached tract, called Blackdown House; and has a post office under Petworth. Acres, 1,805. Real property, £2,214. Pop., 629. Houses, 133. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Bishop of London; was then a liberty, enjoying certain exemptions; was given, by Henry VIII., to Sir Anthony Browne; and belongs now to the Earl of Egmont. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £58. Patron, the Earl of Egmont. The church is ancient; comprises nave, aisles, transepts, and chancel, with a tower; has a kind of open cloister of timber-work on the S side; and was recently restored. There is a national school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Sussex
  • Civil Registration District: Midhurst
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Midhurst
  • Poor Law Union: Midhurst
  • Hundred: Easebourne
  • Province: Canterbury