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The ParishThe parish of Burton lies in central West Sussex about 3 miles south of the market town of Petworth. Burton is located a half mile east of the A285 road which connects Petworth with Chichester. There is no village as such to Burton just the grounds of Burton Hall and surrounded cottages and farms and it is not reached by public road only the footpath network of the estate. Burton is located within the Sussex Weald and would have earned its living from a mixed farming economy at the time of this transcript. As a closed parish with all land owned by the lords at the Hall Burton never developed as a village and was one of the least populated parishes of Sussex. The parish is drained by a small tributary of the River Rother, much altered for ornamental reasons by man to grace the estate, the Rother is met after a couple of miles and it runs eastwards to join the Arun near Pulborough and thence to the English Channel through Littlehampton. Burton is sited at just 30 metres above the sea but lies in sight of the escarpment of the South Downs which rise to 236 metres on Woolavington Down just 2 1/2 miles away. Burton parish is small covering just under 800 acres and would have supported fewer than 10 parishioners. In Domesday time Burton was a place, it was held by Earl Roger of Shrewsbury and could offer 4 ploughs, small meadows & woodland as well as a mill and a fishery. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 23rd November 1810 - 12th November 1832 | West Sussex Record Office | Bishops Transcripts on loose-leaf folios | Grade 4 Register - there are notable quality issues with this register which may have resulted in many misreads | There are no surviving register for this parish other than the BTs which are of poor quality and extremely poor coverage |
Petworth
St Mary
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Petworth St
Mary
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Petworth
St Mary
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Barlavington
St Mary
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Bury St John
the Evangelist
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Barlavington
St Mary
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