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Angmering, a parish in Sussex, on the L.B. & S.C.R., 63 miles from London, and 4 SE of Arundel. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 4557 ; population of the civil parish, 1014; of the ecclesiastical, 990. Ham Manor, the seat of the Fletcher family, is the principal house in the neighbourhood. New Place, now inhabited by work-people, was the seat of Sir Edward Palmer in the time of Henry VIII., and the birthplace of his three SODS, who were all knighted. The living is a rectory and a vicarage— rectory of East Angmering, vicarage of West Angmering— in the diocese of Chichester; value, £230. East Angmering church has disappeared. West Angmering church, excepting the tower and small part of the chancel, was rebuilt in 1852. There are Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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