In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Patcham like this:
PATCHAM, a village and a parish in Steyning district, Sussex. The village stands on the verge of the South Downs, near a long tunnel of the London and Brighton railway, 3 miles N of Brighton; and has a post-office under Brighton. The parish contains also the hamlets of Monscomb and Withdean, and the pleasuregardens of Tivoli. ...
Acres, 4, 398. Real property, £5, 921. Pop. in 1851, 490; in 1861, 638. Houses, 120. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Abergavenny. Patcham Place is the seat of Col. John Paine; and Withdean Hall, ofLacy, Esq. The parish is a meet for the Brighton hounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value £153. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church standsconspicuously on a rising ground; and is early English and later, with an embattled tower. There is a national school.
Patcham through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Patcham, in Brighton and Hove and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8887
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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