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Appledram or Apuldram, a parish in Sussex, on the E side of Chichester Harbour, 1 1/2 mile from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 2 miles by road SW of Chichester, which is the post town, and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 937; population, 144. A farmhouse near the church was part of a castle which William Ryman was stopped in building in the time of Edward II., and the rest of the materials were used in erecting the Campanile or bell tower that bears his name at Chichester. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chichester; value, £154. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is Early English, was carefully restored in 1877, and is particularly worthy of notice.

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

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