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Name | Burton |
Type | Parish |
Coordinates | 50.949°N 0.624°W |
Located in | Sussex, England |
Also located in | West Sussex, England (1865 - ) |
See also | Arundel Rape, Sussex, England | rape in which it was located | | Rotherbridge Hundred, Sussex, England | hundred in which it was located | | Petworth Rural, Sussex, England | rural district 1894-1933 | | Duncton, Sussex, England | parish which absorbed part of Burton parish in 1933 | | East Lavington, Sussex, England | parish which absorbed part of Burton parish in 1933 | | Sutton, Sussex, England | parish which absorbed part of Burton parish in 1933 | | Chichester District, West Sussex, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).
- "BURTON, or Bodexton, a parish in Chichester [registration] district, Sussex; on the river Rother and the Arundel canal, near the Mid-Sussex railway, 3 miles SSW of Petworth. Post Town: Petworth. Acres: 809. Real property: £597. Population: 45. Houses: 9. Burton Park is the seat of the Biddulphs. The living is a rectory, united with the {perpetual] curacy of Coates, in the diocese of Chichester. Value: £113. Patron: George Wyndham, Esq."
Burton was a civil parish with several detached parts and this was probably at least part of the reason why it was abolished in 1933. The land was divided between the neighbouring parishes of Duncton (344 acres; 43 inhabitants), East Lavington (257 acres; no inhabitants) and Sutton (209 acres; 9 inhabitants).
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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 | Burton, Sussex, England | Rotherbridge Hundred, Sussex, England | Arundel Rape, Sussex, England | Petworth Rural, Sussex, England | Duncton, Sussex, England | East Lavington, Sussex, England | Sutton, Sussex, England | West Sussex, England
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