Place:Albourne, Sussex, England

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Albourne is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the A23 road three miles (4.8 km) east of Henfield. The parish has a land area of 772.9 hectares (1909 acres of 2.98 sq mi). In the 2001 UK census 600 people lived in 234 households. The population at the 2011 UK Census was 644.

The village is home to a number of old and historic buildings, such as Gallops (an old timber building, built in the 17th century}. There is also the church of St. Bartholomew.

English inventor and father of the bicycle industry, James Starley, was born in Albourne in 1831.

"ALBOURNE is a parish, 3 and a half miles from Hassocks Gate station, 9 from Brighton, 13 from Lewes, and 46 from London, in the Western division of the county; Bramber rape, Tipnoak hundred, Cuckfield union and county court district, diocese of Chichester, and archdeaconry of Lewes." (Source: Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1867. as quoted by GENUKI)

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.

• GENUKI on Albourne
• British History Online. A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6, Part 3, Bramber Rape: North-Eastern Part is the first of a number of chapters on Albourne.

• Maps of the local area are to be found on the page for Arundel Rape and on that for Cuckfield Rural District. [currently in preparation. 13 Mar 2020)