Selham Sussex Family History Guide

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Selham or Sulham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: South Ambersham and North Ambersham.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

Selham

  • Parish registers: 1565
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1572

Note: for North and South Ambersham, see also Steep, Hampshire and East Meon, Hampshire

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SELHAM, or Sulham, a parish, with a village, in Midhurst district, Sussex; 3¼ miles E of Midhurst r. station. Post-town, Petworth. Acres, 1,042. Real property, £888. Pop., 123. Houses, 19. The manor belonged to Earl Godwin; went, at the Conquest, to Earl Montgomery; passed to the Arundels, the Montagues, and the Poyntzes; and belongs now to the Earl of Egmont. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £150. Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is Norman, and was recently restored.

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