West Grinstead Sussex Family History Guide
West Grinstead is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Other places in the parish include: Partridge Green.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1591
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Roman Catholic.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GRINSTEAD (WEST), a village, a parish, and a hundred in Sussex. The village stands on the river Adur, near the Horsham and Shoreham railway, 6¾ miles S of Horsham; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Horsham. The parish includes also the hamlet of Partridge Green; and is in Horsham district. Acres, 6,658. Real property, £6,871; of which £92 are in the Adur navigation. Pop., 1,403. house, 235. The property is divided among a few.
The manor belongs to the Rev. John Goring. Grinstead Park belonged formerly to the Carylls; was visited, in their time, by Pope, when he wrote his “Rape of the Lock;” and is now the seat of Sir P. Burrell, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £791. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is ancient but good; and contains monuments of the Powletts, the Carylls, and the Burrells. There are a Roman Catholic chapel and a national school. The hundred is in the rape of Bramber, and contains four parishes. Acres, 17,984. Pop. in 1851, 3,193. house, 458.
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: West Grinstead
- Province: Canterbury