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.
SOUTHWATER, a village in Horsham parish, and a chapelry partly also in Shipley parish, Sussex. The village stands adjacent to the Horsham and Brighton railway, 3 miles S by W of Horsham; and has a r. station with telegraph. The chapelry was constituted in 1853. Post town, Horsham. Pop., 703. Houses, 111. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £45.* Patron, the Vicar of Horsham. The church was built in 1850. There is a parochial school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Shipley AP/CP Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Southwater |
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