WISBOROUGH-GREEN, a parish, with four hamlets, in Petworth district, Sussex; on the Arun and Wey canal, 3 miles W by N of Billingshurst r. station, and 6 NE of Petworth. It has a post-office under Horsham, and a workhouse. Acres, 8,484. Real property, £8,814; of which £603 are in the canal. Pop. in 1861, 1,682; of whom 43 were in the workhousehouse. Houses, 328. Burchett Park is the seat of W. R. Rogers, Esq. Drunswich Place was a seat of the early Bishops of Chichester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £440.* Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is early English. A chapel of ease is at Loxwood. There is a national school.

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