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HENFIELD, a village and a parish in Steyning district, Sussex. The village stands on an eminence, near the river Adur and the Horsham and Shoreham railway, 4½ miles NNE of Steyning; is a picturesque place, with some good specimens of the old Sussex cottage; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post office‡ under Hurstperpoint, a mechanics' institute, and fairs on 4 May and 1 Aug. The parish comprises 4, 491 acres. Real property, £9, 953. Pop., 1, 662. Houses, 320. The property is divided chiefly among eight. The manor belonged, in the Saxon times, to Earl Warbald; was given, in 770, to the bishops of Chichester; had an ancient palace, founded either before or soon after its coming to the bishops; was known, at Domesday, as Hamfeldt; and still belongs to the bishops of Chichester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £412.* Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is later English, with a massive tower; was repaired in 1855; and contains a curious monumental inscription to a child who died in 1627. There are an Independent chapel, national schools, and charities £16.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Administrative units: | Henfield AP/CP Steyning RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | HAMFELDT | HENFIELD |
| Place: | Henfield |
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