Iping, Sussex

Description
Iping, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, on the river Bother, 2 miles from Elstead station on the L. & S.W.R. In 1881 detached portions of the parishes of Stedham, Trotton, and Chithurst were annexed to this parish. There is a post office under Midhurst; money order and telegraph office, Midhurst. Acreage, 2240; population of the civil parish, 530; of the ecclesiastical, 734. The manor was known at Domesday as Epinges; belonged in the time of Edward I. to Richard de Amundeville; passed in 1381 to Henry Hussee, lord of Harting; was granted in the time of Henry VIII. to Sir Henry Audley; went by sale in 1784 to the Earl of Egremont; passed in 1800 to Lord Spencer; and now belongs to the Hamilton family. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Chithurst, in the diocese of Chichester; value,, £250 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is Early English; comprises nave, chancel, and transepts, with a tower; was rebuilt in 1840 and again in 1885, with the exception of the tower. There is a chapel of ease at Iping Marsh, which was erected in 1878. Iping House and Fitz Hall are chief residences.