From Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Sussex, 1938 (pp. 296)
NEW FISHBOURNE is an ecclesiastical parish, at the head of the eastern branch of Chichester harbour, on the road from Chichester to Portsmouth, 1 mile west from Chichester, and has a halt on the motor rail service between Portsmouth and Chichester; it is in the Chichester division of the county, hundred of Box and Stockbridge, rape, petty sessional division and county court district of Chichester, and rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. Water is obtained from the Chichester Corporation Works, and is laid on to practically all houses, and the village is lighted with electricity. The church of SS. Peter and Mary is of stone, in the Early English style, and has a belfry containing one bell: there are 140 sittings. The register dates from the year 1589. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £339, with 1½ acres of glebe and residence in the gift of The Crown, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Neville Frederick Shaw M.A. of Magdalen College, Oxford. A church room was erected in 1905. There is a Methodist chapel. The Rector’s trust account, a sum of £100 in Consols, which produces £2 18s. 4d. yearly, is for the benefit of the poor of the parish. The ownership of the land is divided. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay and gravel. The land is chiefly used for grazing. The population in 1931 was 425.
Under the West Sussex Review Order, in 1933, part of New Fishbourne was transferred to Chichester and part to Funtington.
Post, M. O. & T. Office. Fishbourne. Letters through Chichester.
Conveyance.- Regular service Southdown Motor Services Ltd. omnibuses on the Chichester-Portsmouth-Brighton route.
Carriers.- To and from Chichester, A. Hayward, Emsworth, daily, except thurs.; South Coast Carriers Ltd. regularly
Marked thus * receive letters direct from Chichester
PRIVATE RESIDENCE.
(For T N’s see general list of Private Residents at end of book.)
Baily Miss, The Old Rectory, Appledram lane
Baxter Miss E. South View, Fishbourne road
*Chaffer Leonard, Glen Parva, Fishbourne road
*Evans David, Streamside, Fishbourne road
*Gray Harry A. Rouken Glen, Fishbourne road
*Humphreys Thomas, West Thorpe, Fishbourne road
*Jeffrey Miss, New house, Fishbourne road
Johnson Mrs. R. B. Manor house, Appledram lane
*Linkins Sidney James, Denmead, Fishbourne road
*Prior John Woods, Cranford, Fishbourne road
Prior Mrs. Kensington cottage
*Scarterfield Arthur, Shandallagh, Fishbourne road
Sharp Richard Joseph, Westfield (postal address, Westgate, Chichstr)
Shaw Rev. Neville Frederick M.A. (rector), Rectory
*Smith Mrs. Mabel B. Acacia lodge, Fishbourne road
*Smurthwaite John Herbert, Weston house, Fishbourne road
Spicer Capt. Stewart D., R.N.(ret.), Salt Mill house
Strange Grove D. Fishbourne lodge
*Trevenyan John, Watersmeet, Fishbourne road
*Tripp Guy H. H. Chestnut cottage, Fishbourne road
*Wallace Mrs. New Fishbourne, Fishbourne road
Waring Jn. A., M.B. Fishbourne cott
*Watkins Josceline Charles Shaw, St. Margaret’s, Fishbourne road
*Welsh Miss, Norton house, Fishbourne road
*Whicher Reginald George, Hawthorns, Fishbourne road
COMMERCIAL.
Boys C. C. & Sons, motor engnrs. Weston garage. Chichester 2218 & 2219
Bull’s Head P.H. (Arth. S.Monckton). Chichester 426
Chichester Drainage Outfall Works (A. Ede, mngr.). Chichester 229
Chitty Brian, farmer, Lawrence farm
*Churchill Jsph. E haulage contractor, Donnacona, Fishbourne rd. Chichester 397
Farne Allan Bennett, dairy farmer, Manor farm
Gables Private Hotel (Mrs. May, proprietress). Chichester 966
*Halsey Albt. Hy. bldr. Holmwood, Fishbourne rd. Chichester 389
*Ledger Hy. Alfd. poultry farmer, The Bays, Fishbourne rd. Chichester 331
Mayor Jas. grocer, New Fishbourne stores
Nutbeem Levi & Sons, bakers. & post office, Providence pl. Chichester 224
Powell Christine (Miss), dressmkr. Woodlands, Fishbourne road
Pusey Wm. Eli, dairy farmer, Wylwyn, Clay la
Scorey Frances Eliz. (Mrs.), dairy farmer, The Elms, Clay la
*Swatton’s Nurseries (Herbt. Wm. Swatton), Fishbourne rd. Chichester 484
Wakeford Winston Philmore, nurseryman, Westmead nurseries, Clay la. Chichester 346
*Woolpack Inn (Catering Houses Ltd.) (Jas. Douglas Stephenson, Manager), Fishbourne rd. Chichester 792