Rusper Sussex Family History Guide

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Rusper is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1571

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RUSPER, a parish, with a village, in Horsham district, Sussex; 2½ miles NW of Faygate r. station, and 5 NNE of Horsham. It has a post-office under Horsham. Acres, 3,126. Real property, £2,173. Pop., 590. Houses, 98. Nunnery is the seat of G. G. Hill, Esq.; and occupies the site of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the time of Richard I. by Archbishop Gervaise, and refounded in 1231 by W de Braose. Norman’s farm has belonged to the family of Mutton since the Norman conquest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £202. Patron, Mrs. Greene. The church is partly early English. Charities, £16.

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

Historical Maps

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Administration

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