Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PAGHAM

PAGHAM, a village and a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex. The village stands on the coast 3½ miles W S W of Bognor r. station, and 4¾ S S E of Chichester; is a small place; and has a post-office under Chichester. The parish contains also the hamlets of Lagness and Rosegreen; and includes the tythings of Aldwick, South Mundham, and Nytimber. Acres, 4, 376; of which 280 are water. Real property, £8, 859. Pop., 988. Houses, 202. The property is subdivided. Aldwick Place is the seat of B. B. Cabbell, Esq.; and the Pavilion, of Lieut Col. H. Austen. Pagham harbourpenetrates between Pagham and Selsey parishes; wasformed by irruption of the sea, in the beginning of the14th century; has a narrow crooked entrance; expands to a maximum breadth of 11/3 mile, and a maximum length of fully 1½ mile; accommodates vessels of40 tons and under, chiefly bearing coals or manure; and includes a space of about 130 feet by 30, called the Hushing well, where the water looks as if in a state ofebullition, from the rushing of vast volumes of air to thesurface. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is early English; comprises nave and chancel, with tower and spire; and contains aslab with Longobardic characters. An archiepiscopalpalace stood a little S E of the church, and has left some indistinct remains. There are a national school and a coast-guard station.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Pagham AP/CP       Westhampnett RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Pagham

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