Description
Eartham, a parish in Sussex, on Stane Street, 4 miles from Barnham station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5^ NE by E of Chichester. It contains part of Seabeach, and its post town is Chichester; money order and telegraph office, Slindon. Acreage, 1539 ; population, 138. Eartham House was the seat of the poet Hayley, inherited from his father, passed hy sale to the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, and has been greatly altered. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £184: with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is chiefly Early English, but has a Norman chancel arch, and it contains a very fine monument, by Flaxman, to a son of Hayley, and a tablet to Huskisson.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
