PULBOROUGH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Thakeham district, Sussex. The village stands on the river Arun, on the Mid-Sussex railway, and on the Roman road from Regnum to Londinum, 9 miles N by E of Arundel; consists chiefly of one long street; and has a post-office‡ under Petworth, a railway station with telegraph, a good inn, a weekly corn-market on Friday, acattle market on alternate Mondays, and a fair on Easter Tuesday. The parish comprises 6, 398 acres. Real property, £11, 988. Pop., 1,852. Houses, 371. The property is much subdivided. Numerous Roman relics have beenfound. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £1, 750.* Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is early English; was recently restored; has a W tower; and contains a Saxon font, a few brasses, and numerousmonumental inscriptions. There are a dissenting chapel, three spacious national school-rooms, built in 1859, and four alms-houses, erected in 1861.—The sub-district contains also four other parishes, and part of another. Pop., 3, 378. Houses, 670.

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