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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PATCHAM, a village and a parish in Steyning district, Sussex. The village stands on the verge of the South Downs, near a long tunnel of the London and Brighton railway, 3 miles N of Brighton; and has a post-office under Brighton. The parish contains also the hamlets of Monscomb and Withdean, and the pleasuregardens of Tivoli. Acres, 4, 398. Real property, £5, 921. Pop. in 1851, 490; in 1861, 638. Houses, 120. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Abergavenny. Patcham Place is the seat of Col. John Paine; and Withdean Hall, ofLacy, Esq. The parish is a meet for the Brighton hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value £153. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church standsconspicuously on a rising ground; and is early English and later, with an embattled tower. There is a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Patcham AP/CP Steyning RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Patcham |
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