West Blatchington Sussex Family History Guide

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West Blatchington, also known as Blatchington near Brighton or West Bletchington, is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1635

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

West Blatchington Melville and Co.’s Directory & Gazetteer of Sussex 1858

WEST BLATCHINGTON is a small parish in Whalesbone hundred, with a population of 53.
Hodson, John, farmer.

West Blatchington The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BLATCHINGTON, or Bletchington (West), a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; near the South Coast railway, 2 ½ miles NW of Brighton. Post Town, Brighton. Acres, 876. Real property, £805. Pop., 59. Houses, 10. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Brighton, in the diocese of Chichester.

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: Steyning
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Lewes
  • Poor Law Union: Steyning
  • Hundred: Whalebone
  • Province: Canterbury