Wisborough Green Sussex Family History Guide

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Wisborough Green is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex. Loxwood is a chapelry of Wisborough Green.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1571

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Calvinist, and Independent/Congregational.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WISBOROUGH-GREEN, a parish, with four hamlets, in Petworth district, Sussex; on the Arun and Wey canal, 3 miles W by N of Billingshurst r. station, and 6 NE of Petworth. It has a post-office under Horsham, and a workhouse. Acres, 8,484. Real property, £8,814; of which £603 are in the canal. Pop. in 1861, 1,682; of whom 43 were in the workhousehouse. Houses, 328. Burchett Park is the seat of W. R. Rogers, Esq. Drunswich Place was a seat of the early Bishops of Chichester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £440. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is early English. A chapel of ease is at Loxwood. 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: Petworth
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Storrington
  • Poor Law Union: Petworth
  • Hundred: Rotherbridge; West Easwrith
  • Province: Canterbury