History of Chichester in Sussex

Place:

Chichester Sussex

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Chichester. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
BARTHOLOMEW ST	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CATHEDRAL CLOSE	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
CHICHESTER	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
CHICHESTER	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
NEWTOWN	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
NEWTOWN	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
OTTER MEMORIAL	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
ST BARTHOLOMEW	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Chichester. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
45UD	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
ALL SAINTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ALL SAINTS OTHERWISE THE PALLANT	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
ANDREW ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
BARTHOLOMEW ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
CATHEDRAL CLOSE	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
CHICHESTER	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
	Ancient District (AD_City/Borough)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 693.
	Archdeaconry	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 777.
	Constituency (PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Constituency (PDivCon)	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974)
	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Diocese	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 777.
	District/Unitary Authority	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Division of Ancient County (Rape)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 692.
	Local Government District (RD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 698.
	Local Government District (MB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 693.
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 505.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (Inc/RegD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 694.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (Inc)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 694.
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 777.
	Sanitary District (USD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 696.
	Sanitary District (RSD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 696.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
CHICHESTER ALL SAINTS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 505.
CHICHESTER ALL SAINTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 505.
CHICHESTER ALL SAINTS OR THE PALLANT	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CLOSE	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'.
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CLOSE PRECINCTS	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
CHICHESTER CITY OF	Local Government District (MB)	1901 Census of England and Wales, Table 24, 'Ages of Persons, Males and Females, in Municipal Boroughs and other Urban Districts, 1901'.
CHICHESTER NEWTOWN	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP/Ch)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER NEWTOWN OR ST JOHNS	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP/Ch)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW IN THE MARKET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW IN THE MARKET	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW IN THE OXMARKET	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW IN THE OXMARKET	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST ANDREW IN THE PALLANT	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST BARTHOLOMEW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST BARTHOLOMEW	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST BARTHOLOMEW AND ST SEPULCHRE	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST JAMES	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST JOHN	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP/Ch)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST MARTIN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST MARTIN	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST MARY IN THE MARKET	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST OLAVE	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST OLAVE	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST OLAVE WITH ST MARTIN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PANCRAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PANCRAS	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PAUL AND BARTHOLOMEW	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PETER SUB CASTRO	Parish-level Unit (AP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PETER THE GREAT	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PETER THE GREAT	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PETER THE GREAT OR SUB DEANRY	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
CHICHESTER ST PETER THE LESS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER ST PETER THE LESS	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER SUB DEANERY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER SUB DEANERY	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 506.
CHICHESTER THE CLOSE	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 505.
E381051	Local Government District (MB)
E381059	Local Government District (RD)
MARTIN ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
NEWTOWN	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP/Ch)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
NEW TOWN	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP/Ch)	1821 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
OLAVE ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PANCRAS ST	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PETER ST THE GREAT	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PETER ST THE GREAT OTHERWISE SUBDEANERY	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PETER ST THE GREAT OTHERWISE SUBDEANRY	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1821 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
PETER ST THE LESS	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
SOUTH WESTERN SUSSEX	Constituency (PDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
ST ANDREW	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST BARTHOLOMEW	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST BARTHOLOMEW RURAL	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 521.
ST JAMES	Parish-level Unit (CP/ExP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST MARTIN	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST OLAVE	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST PANCRAS	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST PANCRAS RURAL	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 521.
ST PETER THE GREAT	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
ST PETER THE LESS	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
SUB DEANERY RURAL	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 523.
SUSSEX CHICHESTER	Constituency (PDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
SUSSEX SOUTH WESTERN	Constituency (PDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
SUSSEX SOUTH WESTERN OR CHICHESTER	Constituency (PDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
SUSSEX WEST CHICHESTER	Constituency (PDivCon)	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
SUSSEX WEST CHICHESTER	Constituency (CCon)	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 (Chichester: Political Reference Publications, 1971)
THE PALLANT	Parish-level Unit (CP/AP)	1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
WEST SUSSEX CHICHESTER	Constituency (PDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
WEST SUSSEX CHICHESTER	Constituency (CCon)	Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Chichester, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Chichester, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chichester in Sussex | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/271/names

Date accessed: 19th April 2024

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