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SHERMANBURY is a parish of scattered houses, 3 Miles north from Henfield, 2&fract12; east from Partridge Green railway station, 14 north from Brighton, 10 from Horsham, 16 from Lewes, 7 from Burgess Hill railway station, and 7 south-west from Hassock's Gate station, in the Western division of the county, Brighton county court district, Windham hundred, rape of Bramber, Steyning union, diocese of Chichester, archdeaconry of Lewes, and rural deanery of Shermanbury. The church of St. Giles is very ancient, and has a nave, chancel, and tower with 2 bells. The register dates from 1653. The living is a rectory, value £387 per annum, with residence and 15 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Hunt, and held by the Rev. JohnMatthew Glubb, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, surrogate and rural dean. Here is a girls' school, under the patronage ofMrs. Hoper of Shermanbury Grange. The principal owners are Mrs. Henry Hunt, Rev. J. Goring, and Henry Rideout, Esq. Mrs. Henry Hunt, of Shermanbury Park, is lady of the manor. Area, 1,911 acres; the population in 1861 was 464. [Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1867.]

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