NEW FISHBOURNE<\/b> is a village and parish, at the head of the eastern branch of Chichester harbour, on the road from Chichester to Portsmouth, a mile and a quarter west from Chichester, in the South Western division of the county, Box and Stockbridge hundred, Chichester rape, petty sessional division and county court district, Westhampnett union, rural deanery of Boxgrove (third division), and archdeaconery and diocese of Chichester. The church of SS. Peter and Mary is a small building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and small wooden belfry at the west end containing one bell; there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1589. The living is a rectory, average yearly value from tithe rent-charge about \u00a3102, net income \u00a3114, with 2 acres glebe and residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Robert Baker M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The Rector’s trust account, a sum of \u00a3117 in Consols, which produces \u00a33 10s. 2d. yearly, is for fuel for the poor of the parish. Salt Hill Park is the residence of the Right Hon. Sir Archibald Levin Smith P.C. Lord Justice of Appeal, who is the principal landowner. Maj-Gen. John Byron is lord of the manor. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 597 acres of land and 36 of water; rateable value, \u00a32088; the population in 1891 was 323.<\/p>\n
Parish Clerk, George Powell<\/p>\n
POST OFFICE – Miss Mercy Standing, sub-postmistress. Letters through Chichester arrive at 7 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dispatched at 1 p.m. & 7.30.p.m.; sunday, arrive at 7 a.m. & dispatched 12.20 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Chichester.<\/p>\n
The children of this place attend the school at Old Fishbourne.<\/p>\n
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.<\/b>
\n\tAylward George, Kensington cottage
\n\tBaker Rev. Robert M.A. The Rectory
\n\tBennett Misses
\n\tBurgess William, Kinvarra
\n\tChambers Major-Gen. Robert Macdonald, Manor house
\n\tEvershed Arth. M.R.C.P. Lond. Eversfield
\n\tHill John
\n\tHobgen Charles, Fishbourne lodge
\n\tHonywood Mrs.
\n\tHoward John
\n\tOakley Mrs. Holmwood cottage
\n\tPrice Capt. George Frank, Westfield
\n\tQuintom Mrs. Chestnut house
\n\tSmith The Right Hon. Sir Archibald Levin P.C. Lord Justice of Appeal, Salt Hill park; & 66 Cadogan square, London W
\n\tWhitney William, Fishbourne villa
\n\tWilds Miss
\n\tWood Frank<\/p>\n
COMMERCIAL.<\/b>
\n\tBailey Maria (Miss), laundress
\n\tBoyes Harry, builder
\n\tCosens Henry John, butcher
\n\tFarne Charles Henry, miller (water, wind & steam)
\n\tGale Francis, dairyman
\n\tGould Louis, Bull’s Head P.H.<\/i>
\n\tLintott Charles Richard, nurseryman & seedsman
\n\tMiller Mark, dairyman
\n\tPartrick John, boot & shoe maker
\n\tPowell William, shopkeeper
\n\tRobbins William, carpenter
\n\tShepherd James, miller (water) & machinist\n\t<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Sussex, 1895 (pp. 356) NEW FISHBOURNE is a village and parish, at the head of the eastern branch of Chichester harbour, on the road from Chichester to Portsmouth, a mile and a quarter west from Chichester, in the South Western division of the county, Box and Stockbridge hundred, Chichester […]<\/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-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dands.uk\/nfops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}