Boxgrove, Sussex

Description
Boxgrove, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 3 miles NNE of Drayton station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3 1/2 NE by E of Chichester. The parish includes also the hamlets of Crocker-Hill and East Hampnett, the tithings of Halnaker and Strellington, and part of the hamlet of Seabeach. Post town, Chichester, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3677; population, 699. The manor was given by Henry I. to Robert de Hay, passed to the Poynings, the Delawarrs, and the Morleys, and belongs now to the Duke of Richmond. Halnaker House, built by Sir Thomas West, Lord Delawarr, in the time of Henry VIII., is now a mass of ruin. Goodwood, the seat of the Duke of Richmond, is a great feature. [See GOODWOOD.] A priory was founded at Boxgrove by Robert de Hay, made a cell to the Benedictine Abbey of Lessay, in Normandy, and allowed to retain its endowments at the suppression of alien monasteries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester ; net value, £408 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Richmond. The church consists of the chancel, aisles, transepts, and central tower of the ancient priory, is all rich Early English, except the tower, which is Norman, and contains tombs of the Poynings, the Delawarrs, and the Morleys; also three others, probably of Henry I.'s queen Adeliza and her two daughters. There is an hospital, founded in 1741 by the Countess of Derby, with a yearly income of £108, and several other good charities. There is also a village club.