Fernhurst

From Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1867

FARNHURST (or FERNHURST) is a parish, in the Western division of the county, Easebourne hundred, Midhurst union, county court district and rural deanery, Chichester rape, diocese and archdeaconry, about 3 miles south from Haslemere, Surrey, on the road to Chichester. The church has a nave and chancel, south aisle, a shingled spire, and is built in the Early English style. The register commences in 1547. The living is a perpetual curacy, value £111 per annum, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Egmont, and held by the Rev. Edmund Harwick Marriott. The manor is not mentioned in the “Domesday Survey,” but is referred to in the grants made to Sir William Fitzwilliam in the reign of Henry VIII., from which time it has descended as part of Cowdry, belonging from time to time to the respective owners of that domain. The Earl of Egmont is lord of the manor. Area, 4,757 acres; the population in 1861 was 769.

North Ambersham.- This, though now a tithing of Farnhurst, was originally a hamlet of the parish of Steep, in Hampshire. By the operation of the Act (7 & 8 Vict. cap. 61), known as the “County Boundaries Act,” the narrow strip of land in which this and the hamlet of South Ambersham, running directly from the county of Hants into that of Sussex, were detached from the former and annexed to the latter. For ecclesiastical purposes this hamlet was attached to Farnhurst, and South Ambersham to Easebourne, and in all respects it is treated as entirely disconnected from the mother parish, except that tithes are still paid to Steep. The population in 1861 was 111.

Parish Clerk, Edmund Etherington.

POST OFFICE.- Edmund Etherington, receiver. Letters through Haslemere arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Haslemere

Farnhurst
Marriott Rev. Edmund Harwick
Salvin Anthony, esq. Hawkesfold
Yetman Herbert Geo. esq. Varndell hill

Commercial
Alwyn James, farmer
Berrey David, sawyer
Bridger John, farmer
Bridger John, relieving officer
Bridger Thomas, farmer, Collyer’s farm
Burt Grace (Mrs.), Red Lion
Curtis Alfred, farmer
Eldridge John, King’s Arms
Etherington Edmund, blacksmith
Hill William, shopkeeper
Huntingford Henry, farmer
Legg Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Luft Edward, farmer, Cooksbridge farm
Luff John, farmer
Madgwick George, farmer
Madgwick James, brick maker
Mayhew James, farmer
Pickman James, farmer
Puttick George, farmer, Doll’s farm
Puttick Thomas, grocer
Slade John & Benjamin, carpenters
Smith George, wheelwright
Wells George, Spread Eagle
West Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer
Wyeth Daniel, shopkeeper

North Ambersham.
Berry Eliza (Mrs.), maltster
Dale John, farmer, Lower house
Dixie Mr. Richard W. Surney
Luft Edward, farmer, Bridgeland