East Itchenor
| East Itchenor | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 Westlands Pier, East Itchenor | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU816004 |
| Location: | 50°47’51"N, 0°50’34"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Chichester |
| Postcode: | PO20 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Chichester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Chichester |
East Itchenor is a hamlet, and the site of a demolished 'manor' house, on the Manhood Peninsula, in Sussex. There was never an actual manor (in the legal sense) nor is it an abandoned village. This is an area of dispersed settlements rather than nucleated ones.
The hamlet sits on the south bank of the broadening Chichester Channel, south-west of Chichester and east of its larger sister village, West Itchenor, downstream, above where the channel opens into Chichester Harbour. On the opposite bank is Bosham Hoe and behind it is Birdham. There is a marina here, on the bank of the channel, and another to the east, across the disused Chichester Ship Canal.
History
East Itchenor derives its name from the Old English iccan ora, meaning 'Icca's shore', after an otherwise unknown Anglo-Saxon chieftain, Icca. The Domesday Book of 1086 names the village as Icenore,[1] but by 1268 it was recorded as Estychenore and its sister village as Westichenor.[2] The Domesday Book also makes mention of two manors in Icenore, necessitating the distinction between 'East' and 'West': the manor covering East Itchenor was owned by the Bishop of Exeter Osbern FitzOsbern and was an endowment of the College of Bosham.[3] East Itchenor was then held by Roger de Montgomery who attached it to his manor of Birdham. There was never a separate manor of East Itchenor with demesne holdings or manor courts.
By the 13th century East Itchenor had a chapel in its own right, better endowed than that of Birdham parish church: in a 1291 survey the rectory was valued at £8.00 a year, as opposed to Birdham's £5.6s.8d.[4] Never consisting of more than a few families employed in farming on the estate its population fell so that in 1440 the Bishop of Chichester Richard Praty united its parish with Birdham.[5]
A map of 1828 shows a significant mansion there, but this had been demolished some twenty years later.
References
- ↑ Stuart Fisher (January 2012). The Rivers of Britain: Estuaries, Tideways, Havens, Lochs, Firths and Kyles. A&C Black. p. 258.
- ↑ L F Salzmann, ed (1916). Feet of Fines For the County of Sussex: Vol. 3, 1308-1509. Lewes: Sussex Record Society.
- ↑ James Dallaway (1815). A history of the western division of the county of Sussex. 1. T. Bensley. p. 47.
- ↑ "Mediæval – AD 1066-1485". http://www.conservancy.co.uk/assets/assets/arch_Mediæval.pdf.
- ↑ A History of the County of Sussex - Volume 4 p : The hundred of Manhood: Introduction (Victoria County History)
