Lynch Sussex Family History Guide

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Lynch or Linch is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Woodman’s Green and Lynch Farm.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1701
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1704

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Lynch The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LINCH, or LYNCH, a parish in Midhurst district, Sussex; on the Midhurst and Haslemere railway, 4½ miles N by W of Midhurst. Post town, Midhurst. Acres, 1,220. Real property, £733. Pop., 111. Houses, 19. The property is divided among a few.

The manor was known at Domesday as Lince; belonged then to Ulric; passed to Viscount Montague, afterwards to W. S. Poyntz, Esq.; and belongs now to the Earl of Egmont. A detached tract, called Linch House and Cottages, lies near Bepton.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £81. Patron, the Earl of Egmont. The church is a plain building, mainly of about the year 1700; but has a curious E window of much older date.

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