Wisborough Green, Sussex
Location
Wisborough Green is an Ancient Parish located close to the northern boundary of the county of Sussex and towards the centre of West Sussex. The village of the same name lies near the centre of the Parish and is approximately ten miles west by south from
Horsham. It is on the road (now the A272) between
Billingshurst which is three miles to the east and
Petworth, six miles to the west-south-west.
Parish Church
The Parish (CofE) Church is St Peter Ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, which can only be glimpsed from the A272 on
Google Street View. The church is also partly visible from Glebe Way
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.021516,-0.50141,3a,75y,341.37h,94.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svCOQYnmg7Cco98PDkUkQxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Parish Registers
West Sussex Records Office notes the existence of a General Register covering the period 1560-1670 with further registers (20+) covering baptisms to 1900, marriages to 1900 and burials to 1877. See
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/media/2510/list_of_parishes.pdf with more specific detail about the coverage of individual registers which are accessible on microfiche at
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/media/2508/register_fiche_list.pdf. Note (as at 07 August 2015) these two lists show slightly different end dates for the final burial register deposited.
Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes
To the east of Wisborough Green lie the parishes of
Billingshurst and
Pulborough. To the south is
Stopham and
Fittleworth, with
Kirdford to the west. To the north lies
Loxwood which is a Chapelry of Wisborough Green.
Gleanings from
