Name | Eastdean (near Chichester) |
Alt names | Eastdean | source: from redirect | | East Dean | source: Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986) |
Type | Parish |
Coordinates | 50.908°N 0.717°W |
Located in | Sussex, England |
Also located in | West Sussex, England (1865 - ) |
See also | Chichester Rape, Sussex, England | rape in which it was located | | Westbourne and Singleton Hundred, Sussex, England | hundred in which it was located | | Westhampnett Rural, Sussex, England | rural district of which it was part 1894-1933 | | Chichester Rural, Sussex, England | rural district of which it was part 1933-1974 | | Chichester District, West Sussex, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
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- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Eastdean (near Chichester) is a village and civil parish now in the Chichester District in West Sussex, England, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north east of Chichester on a narrow road between Singleton on the A286 and Up Waltham on the A285.
The village, set in a valley in the South Downs, has an Anglican parish church dedicated to All Saints, and a nonconformist chapel. The village hall was formerly the school and bears the date 1782.
The church, the pub and most of the houses are built of flint, usually with brick quoins and window dressings. A fire in 1852 destroyed eight houses and several barns, leaving others damaged. Slate roofs replaced the thatch on some of these.
The pond is considered to be the source of the River Lavant. The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath crosses the parish on the downs to the south of the village.
The parish has a land area of 1663.5 hectares (4109 acres). In the 2011 UK census the population was 206.
Research Tips
- The West Sussex Record Office is located in Chichester. Because it holds the records of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, which covers the whole of Sussex, it has church records relating to both parts of Sussex.
- An on-line catalogue for some of the collections held by the West Sussex Record Office is available under the Access to Archives (A2A) project (a nationwide facility housed at The National Archives, Kew).
- West Sussex Past - database of 2 million records from West Sussex heritage organizations.
- The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies' Sussex Collection (PDF). This is a 9-page PDF naming the files relating to Sussex in their collection-a possible first step in a course of research.
- The National Library of Scotland has a website which provides maps taken from the Ordnance Survey England & Wales One-Inch to the Mile series of 1892-1908 as well as equivalent maps for Scotland itself. The immediate presentation is a "help" screen and a place selection screen prompting the entry of a location down to town, village or parish level. These screens can be removed by a click of the "X". The map is very clear and shows parish and county boundaries and many large buildings and estates that existed at the turn of the 20th century. Magnification can be adjusted and an "overlay feature" allows inspection of the area today along with that of 1900. The specific map from the series can be viewed as a whole ("View this map") and this allows the inspection of the map legend (found in the left hand bottom corner. Becoming familiar with the various facilities of these maps is well worth the trouble.
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Categories: Sussex, England | Eastdean (near Chichester), Sussex, England | Westbourne and Singleton Hundred, Sussex, England | Chichester Rape, Sussex, England | Westhampnett Rural, Sussex, England | Chichester Rural, Sussex, England | Chichester District, West Sussex, England | West Sussex, England
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