Southbourne Sussex Family History Guide
Southbourne is a chapelry of Westbourne Ancient Parish in Sussex.
Parish church: St. John the Evangelist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1878
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist (chapel at Southbourne), Primitive Methodist (chapel at Nutbourne)
Schools: Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1876, & enlarged 1898 for 200 children
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
Southbourne Kelly’s Directory of Sussex 1915
SOUTHBOURNE is an ecclesiastical parish (including Nutbourne, Prinsted, Hermitage and Gosden Green), formed Feb. 26, 1878, out of Westbourne, its western limit being a small stream or bourne called the Emm, separating it from Hampshire; it is about 1½ miles east from Emsworth station on the Brighton and Portsmouth section of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, who have a small station here and also one at Nutbourne, used in connection with the rail motor service which runs from Chichester to Portsmouth; it is 6 west from Chichester, in the South Western division of the county, rape, petty sessional division and county court district of Chichester, and in the rural deanery of Westbourne and archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester.
Historical Maps
Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps
Administration
- County: Sussex
- Civil Registration District: Westbourne
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester
- Diocese: Chichester
- Rural Deanery: Boxgrove
- Poor Law Union: Westbourne
- Hundred: Westbourne and Singleton
- Province: Canterbury