Tangmere Sussex Family History Guide

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Tangmere is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1538
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1610

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TANGMERE, a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex; 1½ mile N of Drayton r. station, and 3 ENE of Chichester. Post town, Chichester. Acres, 774. Real property, £1,612. Pop., 201. Houses, 47. Most of the land belongs to the Duke of Richmond. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £282. Patron, the Duke of Richmond. The church is mainly early English.

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: Westhampnett
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Exempt Deaneries of Pagham and Tarring
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Pagham
  • Poor Law Union: Westhampnett
  • Hundred: Aldwick
  • Province: Canterbury