A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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 postoffice 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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | West Grinstead AP/CP West Grinstead Hundred Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | GRINSTEAD | GRINSTEAD WEST | WEST GRINSTEAD |
| Place: | West Grinstead |
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