NEW FISHBOURNE<\/b> is a village and a parish a mile and a quarter west from Chichester, in the Western division of the county, Box and Stockbridge hundred, Chichester rape and county court district, Westhampnett union, rural deanery of Boxgrove third division, archdeaconery and diocese of Chichester, situate at the head of the eastern branch of Chichester harbour. The road from Chichester to Portsmouth and the South Coast railway pass through the parish. The church of SS. Peter and Mary is a small building of the Early English period, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a small wooden belfry at the west end. The register dates from the year 1567. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value \u00a3250 with glebe producing \u00a350, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held, since 1875, by the Rev. Robert Baker M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, who resides at West Gate, Chichester. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The poor’s land produces \u00a31 yearly, which is distributed in money; Levin’s charity of \u00a33 10s. 2d. per anuum, derived from a sum of \u00a3177 in Consols, is for clothing. The principal landowners are Mrs. Smith, of Salt Hill Park and E. Stanford esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 610 acres; rateable value, \u00a32,144; and the population in 1881 was 316.<\/p>\n
Parish Clerk, William Robbins<\/p>\n
POST OFFICE.- Miss Mercy Standing, postmistress. Letters through Chichester arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 7.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Chichester<\/p>\n
Private Residents<\/b>
\n\tBallard Adolphus, Westfield
\n\tBroadbridge Miss
\n\tDawes Benjamin
\n\tFarne Charles Henry, New Fishbourne ho
\n\tGambling George James
\n\tHackett George, North View
\n\tHobgen Charles, Fishbourne Lodge
\n\tHonywood Mrs.
\n\tOakley George, Holmwood cottage
\n\tPassingham Henry
\n\tQuintom George Daniell, Chestnut ho
\n\tReynolds Thomas
\n\tShepherd James
\n\tSmith Mrs. Salt Hill park
\n\tSmith Robert
\n\tStanford Edward J.P. Manor house
\n\tTurner Miss
\n\tVickers Miss
\n\tWeston George Harris<\/p>\n
COMMERCIAL<\/b>
\n\tAyling Henry, nurseryman
\n\tBailey Maria (Miss), laundress
\n\tBoyes Harry, builder
\n\tBrain John, shopkeeper
\n\tFarne Charles Henry, miller (water & wind) & farmer
\n\tGale Francis, dairyman
\n\tKnight William, Bull’s Head<\/i>
\n\tMatthews Wm. Rd. baker & beer retailer
\n\tPartrick John, boot & shoe maker
\n\tQuintom George Daniel, grazier
\n\tRobbins William, carpenter
\n\tShepherd Jas. miller (water) & machinist
\n\tSmith Henry, general dealer
\n\tSpeight George (Mrs.) laundress\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Sussex, 1882 (pp. 2035) NEW FISHBOURNE is a village and a parish a mile and a quarter west from Chichester, in the Western division of the county, Box and Stockbridge hundred, Chichester rape and county court district, Westhampnett union, rural deanery of Boxgrove third division, archdeaconery and diocese of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}