Westbourne Sussex Family History Guide
Westbourne is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Southbourne is a chapelry of Westbourne.
Other places in the parish include: Aldsworth, Hermitage, Nutbourne, Woodmancote, and Prinstead.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1549
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1572
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Calvinist, Independent/Congregational, and Particular Baptist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WESTBOURNE, a village, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Sussex. The village stands 1 mile N of Emsworth r. station, and 2¾ ENE of Havant; was once a trading town; and has a post-office under Emsworth. The parish includes five tythings; comprises 4,306 acres of land, and 785 of water: and contains W. workhouse. Real property, £10,914. Pop., 2,165. Houses, 467. Much of the land belongs to Lord Leconfield and Messrs. Hipkin and Wyatt. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £450. Patron, J. Sperling, Esq. The church is good; and there is a national school.
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: 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