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EARTHAM, a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex; on Stane-street, 3 miles N of Woodgate r. station, and 5½ NE by E of Chichester. It contains part of Sea-beach; and its post town is Slindon, under Arundel. Acres, 1, 504. Real property, £1, 393. Pop., 121. Houses, 28. Eartham Hall was the seat of the poet Hayley, inherited from his father; passed by sale to the Right Hon. W. Huskisson; and has been greatly altered. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £210. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is chiefly early English, but has a Norman chancel arch; and it contains a very fine monument, by Flaxman, to a son of Hayley, and a tablet to Huskisson.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Eartham Parish Westhampnett Poor Law Union/Registration District Sussex Ancient County |
| Place: | Eartham |
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