Burton with Coates, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Coates St Agatha (with Burton) is an Ancient Parish in West Sussex.

BURTON, or Bodekton, in the union of Sutton, hundred of Rotherbridge, rape of Arundel, county of Sussex, 3½ miles (S. by W.) from Petworth; containing 7 inhabitants. It comprises by measurement 776 acres, and is bounded on the north-east by the river Rother, over which is a bridge at Stopham. The living is a rectory, with that of Coates consolidated, discharged from the payment of first-fruits, but paying tenths to the bishop, and valued in the king's books at £7. 3. 11½.; net income, £113; patron, Colonel Wyndham. The tithes of Burton have been commuted for £88. The church, which is beautifully situated in the Park, is a handsome structure in the later English style, and contains several ancient brasses, under enriched canopies, to the memory of the Gorings, and other families: divine service has not been performed for many years. Attached to the mansion is a Roman Catholic chapel.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 445-448. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50846 Date accessed: 08 May 2011.

The church within Burton Park survives the house was for many years used at a girls boarding school but has since been converted to private residential housing.



In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Coates like this:

COATES, a parish in Chichester district, Sussex; on the river Rother, near the Mid Sussex railway, 2 miles SSE of Petworth. Post town, Petworth. Acres, 345. Real property, £680. Pop., 78. Houses, 15. The property belongs chiefly to one. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Burton, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is early English, and has a spire.

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Church records
Coates St Agatha (with Burton)

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1559-1999 Marr 1561-1774, 1820-1897 Bur 1562-1991

Bishop's Transcripts 1592-1878

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Poor Law Unions
Sutton (East Preston) Poor Law Union, Sussex

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