Stedham

Stedham is a village and parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, on the A272 road 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Midhurst.

Stedham
Stedham Location within West Sussex
OS grid reference	SU861221
District	Chichester
Shire county	West Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Midhurst
Postcode district	GU29
Dialling code	01730
Police	Sussex
Fire	West Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Chichester

The village has a garden centre, social club and a pub, The Hamilton Arms, which has a Thai restaurant. The village shop closed in 1991.[1]

Governance

It lies within the civil parish of Stedham with Iping where the 2011 Census population is included. An electoral ward in the same name exists. At the 2011 Census the ward had a population of 2,114.[2]

Parish history

Church

The parish church of St James is at the north end of the village just above the River Rother. The original church was built c. 1040, however not much of this is left. The upper parts of the church are dated c. 1673. The churchyard contains a yew tree which is thought to be over 2,500 years old.[3][4]

Domesday Book

The parish (then called Stedeham) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086), in the ancient hundred of Easebourne, as a large settlement having 49 households: 23 villagers, 16 smallholders and 10 slaves. Resources included ploughing land, meadows, woodland, three mills and the church.[5]

19th century

In 1861, the parish extended to 2,249 acres (910 ha) and the population was 530.[6]

Stedham's watermill at the north end of the village was used for manufacturing blotting paper.[1]

Education

Stedham Primary School[7] is the main primary school serving the village.[8] In 2014 Durand Academy in Stockwell, South London opened a boarding school for its senior pupils at the site of the former St Cuthman's School in Stedham,[9][10] The school admits pupils from South London.[11]

References

1. "Stedham, West Sussex, Iping, West Sussex, England, UK". www.gravelroots.net. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
2. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 16 October 2015.
3. "St James Church, Stedham - A Church Near You". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
4. "The Parish Church of St James, Stedham". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
5. "Open Domesday: Stedham". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
6. "GENUKI: Stedham". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
7. "Google". www.google.co.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
8. "Welcome to Stedham Primary School". www.stedham.w-sussex.sch.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
9. Sawer, Patrick; Hope, Christopher (9 November 2014). "A boarding school education in the country". The Telegraph.
10. Fiona Millar (1 December 2015). "'State sector Eton' for inner-city boarders fails to live up to the hype". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
11. "Boarding school 'to open next month'". 29 September 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.

External links

• Further historical information and sources on GENUKI