From Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1867
NEW FISHBOURNE is a village and parish, a mile and a half west from Chichester, in the Western division of the County, Box and Stockbridge hundred, Chichester rape, county court district, archdeaconry and rural deanery, and West Hampnett union. The road from Chichester to Portsmouth and the South Coast Railway pass through the parish. The living is a rectory, value £180 per annum, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Matthew Parrington, M.A., of Christ’s College, Cambridge. The principal landowners are Francis Smith, Esq., of Salt Hill Park, and the Rev. Sir Thomas Miller, Bart. The area is 610 acres, and the population in 1861 was 341.
OLD PARK is a mile and a half south-west.
Parish Clerk, George Ayling.
Letters received through Chichester, which is the nearest money order office
Dowell Mrs
Farndell Henry, esq.
Freeland Miss
Hackfield William, esq.
Halsted Mr. William
Howard Mr. William Nelson
Mills Mr. Stephen John
Saunders Richard C. R.N.
Shepherd Mr. James
Smith Francis, esq. J.P. Salt Hill park
Turner Mr. Caleb
Williams Rev. Benjamin Byrond
COMMERCIAL.
Ayling George, shoe maker
Ayling Henry, gardener
Boyce Henry, carpenter
Brain John, shopkeeper
Fever Henry, miller
Gale Francis, market gardener
Knight William, Bull’s Head
Long Robert, tailor
Matthews William Richard, baker
Peachey George, jobber
Peachey Richard, farmer, Church farm
Penfold Richard, grazier
Quintin George, glazier
Randall Francis, collector of taxes
Robbins William, carpenter
Shepherd James, jun. millwright & miller