Kirdford, Sussex

Description
Kirdford, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on an affluent of the river Arnn, 4 1/2 miles NE by N of Petworth, and 5 W by N of Billingburst station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Billinghurst; money order and telegraph office, Wisborough Green. The parish includes the chapelry of Plaistow. Acreage, 12, 407; population of the civil parish, 1648; of the ecclesiastical, 1364. A detached portion of Lurgashall was annexed to the parish in 1879. Shillingley Park is the seat of Earl Winterton. Nearly one-third of the land is under wood. A limestone of peculiar character, known as Sussex or Petworth marble, has been largely quarried, and is believed to have been worked by the Romans and the Normans. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Plaistow, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £40 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The parish church is chiefly Early English, and has a large tower. The church of Plaistow was rebuilt in 1856.