Sidlesham
| Sidlesham | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 Sidlesham Primary School | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SZ853991 |
| Location: | 50°47’9"N, 0°47’25"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,171 (2011) |
| Post town: | Chichester |
| Postcode: | PO20 |
| Dialling code: | 01243 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Chichester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Chichester |
| Website: | http://www.sidlesham.org/ |
Sidlesham is a small village on the Manhood Peninsula of Sussex that juts into the English Channel. The village is three miles south of Chichester.
The area has had a prebendary since the Middle Ages.[1] The 13th-century church of St Mary is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area.[2]
The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 1,171.
The parish has fertile soils on the flat Chichester plain and there are many glasshouses around the village.
History
The village has had a long history of farming and was made up of a group of farms including: Bakers, Chalder, Church, Easton, Ferry, Fletchers, Great Ham, Greenwood, Haise, Halsey, Ham, Highleigh, Jury, Keynor, Marblestone, Marsh, Oakhurst, Porthole, Redgate, Rookery, Shotfold and Street End. In 1935 the Sidlesham Land Settlement Association was set up and "settlers" from County Durham, Northumberland, Glamorgan and surrounding counties stayed in Keynor hut while their houses were built and they received training.
The Sidlesham Land Settlement Association continued smallholding until its privatisation in 1983.[3]
Sport and leisure
The first definite mention of cricket in Sussex relates to ecclesiastical court records in 1611 which state that two parishioners of Sidlesham failed to attend church on Easter Sunday because they were playing cricket. They were fined 12 d each and made to do penance.
- Football: Sidlesham F.C. who play at The Memorial Recreation Ground.
About the village
Pagham Harbour is a broad, enclosed tidal inlet in the coast of the Manhood Peninsula, entered by several local brooks and opening to the Channel. It has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and this falls partly within the parish of Sidlesham.[4] The harbour and surrounding land is of national importance for both flora and fauna. The shingle spit is also of geological interest.
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References
- ↑ Prebendaries: Sidlesham: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541, Vol 7, pp 40-42
- ↑ The Buildings of West Sussex Pevsner,N/Nairn,I.(Sussex (1965,Middlesex, Penguin p 356) ISBN 0-14-071028-0
- ↑ "The Sidlesham Heritage Trail, About The SLSA" (in en). http://www.sidleshamheritagetrail.co.uk/.
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Pagham Harbour
