Greatham with Wiggonholt, Sussex Genealogy

England   Sussex



Parish History
Greatham with Wiggonholt is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.Other places in the parish include: Wigginholt and Wiggonholt.

WIGGONHOLT, a parish, in the hundred of West Easwrith, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 8 miles (N. N. E.) from Arundel; containing 36 inhabitants. It is bounded on the west by the river Arun, and comprises about 800 acres, the greater portion of which is meadow and pasture. The soil varies from a loamy sand to a retentive clay; the surface, though generally level, is enlivened with a pleasing diversity of scenery. The road from Petworth to Brighton passes through. The living is a rectory, with that of Greatham consolidated, valued in the king's books at £7. 4. 4½., and in the gift of the Hon. Robert Curzon: the tithes of Wiggonholt have been commuted for £102. 14., and the glebe comprises 9 acres. The church was repewed and repaired in 1839, at the expense of the Hon. R. Curzon; the rectory-house was enlarged and altered in 1838 by the incumbent, and is now a spacious residence, in the Elizabethan style. A great number of Roman urns was found in 1827, made of red pottery, and beautifully figured; but from the unprotected situation in which they had been deposited, few of them were in a perfect state. Coins of the emperors Nero, Vespasian, Claudius, Adrian, and Marcus Antoninus, were also discovered.

GREATHAM, a parish, in the union of Sutton, hundred of West Easwrith, rape of Arundel, W. division of Sussex, 7¼ miles (N. by E.) from Arundel; containing 64 inhabitants. The river Arun runs through, and the Wey and Arun canal passes by, the parish. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Wiggonholt: the tithes have been commuted for £158. 18., and the glebe comprises 21 acres. The church is in the early English style.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 332-338. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50989 Date accessed: 06 May 2011.

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Church records
Wigginholt cum Greatham

West Sussex Record Office has deposited parish Registers Bap 1597-1992 Marr 1620-1993 Bur 1620-1993

Bishop's Transcripts 1592-1895

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Poor Law Unions
East Preston Poor Law Union, Sussex

Probate records
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