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# Ferring History Group

Ferring, West Sussex

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- [Ferring History & Conservation Groups Christmas Social](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-history-conservation-groups-christmas-social/) - Our next event is a combined Christmas Social with Ferring Conservation Group. We have Kevin Newman coming to give us a talk titled "Sussexmas" - We travel back in time to assemble assorted past Sussex foods, drinks, dinner guests, party games, traditions etc to try and concoct the best ever Christmas Day. There will also
- [Bungalow Town - Geoffrey Mead](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/bungalow-town-geoffrey-mead/) - Our next meeting is on Friday 7th November, 7:30pm at Ferring Village Hall, where Geoffrey Mead will be giving his presentation titled "Bungalow Town - Hollywood in Shoreham By Sea".
- [Pioneers Of Worthing](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pioneers-of-worthing/) - Our next meeting is on Friday 1st August 2025, 7:30pm at Ferring Village Hall. The talk is titled "Pioneers of Worthing", a talk about the people who shaped the built environment of our town. It showcases 13 individuals who contributed significantly to the buildings of the past and those still standing and whose influence ensures
- [Ferring At War - Tales from the Home Front](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-at-war-tales-from-the-home-front/) - Our next meeting is Friday 2nd May, 7:30pm at Ferring Village Hall, when Pete Coe will be giving a presentation on wartime Ferring.
- [Portslade - with Trevor Povey](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/portslade-with-trevor-povey/)
- [Christmas Social](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/christmas-social-2/)
- [Events for the remainder of 2024](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/events-for-the-remainder-of-2024/) - Friday 1st November – Ferring History Group meeting – A History of Shoreham Airport with Peter Fellows. There will be an opportunity to renew your membership for 2025. Tickets for the Christmas Social will also be available. Saturday 2nd November - Almost Nothing But Blue Ground Performance Lecture at Ferring Village Hall (3:30 – 4:40pm)
- [Events by Ferring History Group](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/events-by-ferring-history-group/) - We have the following events planned in the near future : Friday 1st November - A History of Shoreham Airport with Peter Fellows - Ferring Village Hall, 7:30pm
- [Pillbox Work - 8th May 2024](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pillbox-work-8th-may-2024/) - Pete Coe, and his army pal Graham Cosham led a team of volunteers to prepare the Pillbox for active service. The bricked up southern embrasure was opened up, and a steel frame and removable plate fitted. Holes were drilled in the east and west embrasures for ventilation. The door was painted in anti-vandal paint, and
- [Our next meeting - Fri 2nd Aug.](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/our-next-meeting-fri-2nd-aug/) - Our next meeting is a presentation called "Ferring From The Air" by Simon Cornish. We will look at aerial photos from the late 1920s to the present day, and see how Ferring has developed. Join us for a fly around Ferring - Fasten your seatbelts !
- [Our next meeting - 3rd May](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/our-next-meeting-3rd-may/) - Our second meeting of 2024 is on Friday 3rd May, 7:30 pm at Ferring Village Hall. James Sainsbury, Worthing Museum's archaeologist returns to talks about "Some new discoveries on our Downland".
- [Annual General Meeting](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/annual-general-meeting/) - FERRING HISTORY GROUP The 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held at 7.30 on Friday 2 February, in the Village Hall. AGENDA 1. To approve the minutes of the 2023 AGM (see below) 2. To receive the Chairman’s report 3. To receive the Auditor’s Annual Financial Statement (see overleaf) 4. To elect officers and other
- [First Meeting - 2024](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/first-meeting-2024/) - Our first meeting of 2024 is on Friday 2nd February, 7:30 pm at Ferring Village Hall. The evening will start with our AGM, after which, Bill Gage will give us his talk - "Tails from the Rails". Bill was a former Assistant County Archivist at West Sussex Record Office, and he will use social history
- [Christmas Social](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/christmas-social/) - Our next meeting is our ticketed Christmas Social on Friday 8th December at 7:30 pm. We will enjoy our usual buffet, quiz, and raffle, and be entertained by Chris Horlock on the subject of "A Sussex Christmas". Tickets available from Ed Miller at £10 each. Please bring your own drinks.
- [Amberley Working Museum](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/amberley-working-museum/) - Our next meeting is on Friday 3rd November at 7:30. The meeting will be at Ferring Village Hall. We will be treated to a presentation on Amberley Working Museum by Katrina Burton, the Museum Director. We are hoping that the 2024 Ferring History Magazine will be ready in time for this meeting, and will be
- [Ferring WWII Defences](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-wwii-defences/) - Our plans for renovating the Pill Box on Pattersons Walk are moving ahead. The Big Bale Out removed 800 litres of rainwater from the floor and the next step is to make the structure waterproof. The Pill Box was only one element in the anti-invasion measures of 1940. Pete Coe, as well as leading the
- [Ferring WWII Pill Box](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-wwii-pill-box/) - I’m sure that most of you will be familiar with the rather drab looking pebble dash square structure on Patterson’s Walk. This deliberately camouflaged building is the best example of a Type 26 Pill Box on the West Sussex coast and was built in 1941 to be part of the ‘costal crust’ national defences against a
- [Worthing in World War II - 4th August](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/worthing-in-world-war-ii-4th-august/) - Our next meeting is on Friday 4th August, where Chris Hare will be talking about Worthing in World War II. Chris is a well known local historian, born in Worthing. He is the author of a number of local history books. This meeting will take place at 7:30, in Ferring Church Centre
- [Ferring Festival - 8th July](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-festival-8th-july/) - Ferring History Group, along with Ferring Conservation Group will be represented at the Ferring Festival. Please come along and see us on the Glebelands, where you will be able to renew your membership, purchase copies of Ed's books (The Day Before Yesterday, and The Henty Century). We will also be selling books of interest from
- [Church & Churchyard - 2nd July](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/church-churchyard-2nd-july/) - Our next Sunday afternoon "walk" will be on 2nd July. Ed will guide us around the structure of the church, and discuss its history, and David will guide us around the churchyard pointing out graves of interest. Meet at the church at 2:30 p.m.
- [1921 Census Walk](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/1921-census-walk/) - Our first walk of the year will be on Sunday 28th May. Please meet at the Henty Arms car park at 2:30 pm. In June 1921, there were 256 people living in approx 50 properties in Ferring. We are going to walk around about 40 of them, looking at who was living in the village,
- [Ferring on Film](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-on-film/) - Join us at Ferring Village Hall on Friday 5th May, 7:30pm for an evening of "Ferring on Film". We will be showing films from the 1930's upto the Millennium. Some serious films documenting events in Ferring, and some comedies made by enthusiasts for fun.
- [Daniel Defoe - Tour of South East England, 1724](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/daniel-defoe-tour-of-south-east-england-1724/) - Trevor Povey is unfortunately unwell, so we have arranged for Geoffrey Mead to come along and talk to us about Daniel Defoe's tour of South East England in 1724. Date, time and place remain unchanged - Friday 3rd February, 7:30 p.m. at Ferring Village Hall. There will be an opportunity to renew your membership for
- [Our first meeting in 2023 - Portslade with Trevor Povey](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/our-first-meeting-in-2023-portslade-with-trevor-povey/) - Trevor Povey returns to Ferring History Group on Friday 3rd February, with his talk on Portslade. Trevor was born in South Portslade and has lived all his life in the Brighton and Hove area. He has taught local history for over 30 years, and is an expert in the history of Portslade. 7:30 p.m. Friday
- [Membership Renewal Time](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/membership-renewal-time/)
- [Our 2 October Walk](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/our-2-october-walk/) - We had a great afternoon for our Kingston walk, after a very wet morning. About 25 of us, including two new members, did the walk up the Rife and westward along the Ferring and Kingston boundary across the fields to Kingston Lane, passing Kingston Manor, looking down the old 'Street' of Kingston village, over to
- [How to use this web site](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/how-to-use-this-web-site/) - Welcome to our web site. Below the photograph of Ocean Drive, looking South, on a card posted in 1939, is a summary menu of what is on the site. Most of the pages are available to any visitor to this site, and the many articles of Ferring History may be quoted from, or reproduced in
- [1000 Years of Wiston](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/1000-years-of-wiston/) - Our next presentation at 7:30 p.m. on Friday 4th November, at Ferring Village Hall is a talk by Janet Pennington on 1000 Years of The Wiston Estate. This illustrated talk encompasses some of the ups and downs of the estate ownership over the last millennium. See how the estate has grown in size, and

## Pages

- [Magazines & Newsletters](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/magazines-newsletters/)
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- [Members Pages - Around Ferring](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/members-pages-around-ferring/) - History Around Ferring : Ferring has close associations with Kingston and East Preston, dating far back to the early days of Ferring’s ‘Minster Church’, and of course, to its neighbours to the north and west – Angmering and Goring. Angmering’s history is very well documented on its ‘Village Life’ web site and there are two
- [2025 Events](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/2024-events/) - 7th February Portslade with Trevor Povey Ferring
- [Pill Box Restoration](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pill-box-restoration/) - Ferring Pill Box History On Patterson’s Walk in Ferring stands a solitary concrete structure, which to the casual observer looks relatively innocuous. It has stood there for over 80 years as a tangible link to our history, a reminder of the dark days our Nation went through and the efforts and sacrifices of many to help
- [AGM](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/agm/) - The Annual General Meeting of Ferring History Group will be held at the beginning of our meeting on Friday 7th February 2025 at 7:30pm in Ferring Village Hall. Please see below the relevant documents : Agenda Minutes from 2024 AGM 2024 Accounts
- [Ferring Through the Ages](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-through-the-ages/) - Click on the title in the panel above to read about Ferring's history in a little more detail. Many further articles, and photographs, can be seen on this web site by members of Ferring History Group. If you are already a member of this Group you can obtain your User Name and Password from the
- [FERRING HISTORY GROUP - who we are and what we do.](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-history-group-who-we-are-and-what-we-do/) - Ferring History Group was founded in 2001 and we now have over 150 members. We research, celebrate and publish the history of our village in West Sussex, near Worthing. We meet four times a year, in the Village Hall, Ferring Street, for presentations and discussions on the history of East and West Sussex, and the
- [Extra pages for subscribers](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/) - You can access these pages if you are a member of Ferring History Group with a current subscription. Please e mail Simon Cornish (or use the Contact Form) to obtain a user name and password: you will then be able to log on. Click on this heading again on the home page and you will
- [Christmas Social](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/christmas-social/) - Our next meeting is our ticketed Christmas Social on Friday 8th December at 7:30 pm. We will have our usual buffet, quiz, and raffle, and we will be entertained by Chris Horlock on the subject of "A Sussex Christmas". Bring your own drinks. Tickets available from Ed Miller at £10 each.
- [A Walk in south Ferring](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/history-walks-in-ferring/a-walk-in-south-ferring/) - If you were not able to join us on our 2015 New Year's Day Walk, here are some notes which might help to do this three-mile walk, nearly all on footpaths, yourself, seeing something of the history of the village. Begin at the Bluebird Café car park (turn left at the junction of South Drive
- [The Day Before Yesterday - updated edition](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/the-day-before-yesterday-updated-edition/) - Ferring History Group members: I am continuously updating and adding to 'The Day before Yesterday'. A link to the latest version is below. Please contact me if you have any corrections to what I have written, or something that could be added. - Ed Miller 20th Century Book Running Edition
- [2023 Events](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/2022-events/) - 3rd February Portslade with Trevor Povey
- [A Kingston Walk](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/a-kingston-walk/) - A KINGSTON WALK - Commentary by Ed Miller, based on the work of Richard Standing, the author of many books and articles on Kingston and East Preston. The name Kingston shows that it was once part of a royal estate (pre-1066, then given to Roger de Montgomery, cousin of Wiliam the Conquerer). Kingston has been
- [A Short History of Brighton](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/our-december-meeting/) - Our December meeting We ended 2021 with a presentation by local historian Trevor Povey, on ‘Brighton – from Fishing Village to Railway Town’. With good Covid precautions, 50 members enjoyed an informative and witty talk, illustrated by a wealth of illustrations, on how this insignificant fishing village became a fashionable place to live and, later,
- [Subscribe To FHG Emails](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/subscribe-to-fhg-emails/) - To subscribe to Ferring History Group emails, please click on the link below and complete the form remembering to click on the Subscribe button at the bottom. http://eepurl.com/c9G20r
- [The Ilex Avenue](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/fhg_info_ilex/) - The Ilex Avenue was originally the driveway to Goring Hall. At the Ferring end, there was a large pair of wrought iron gates, with rails extending about 10m either side : Once inside the gates, to the left was the gate house, known as "West Lodge". The gates and railings were removed during WW2 for
- [Lost Properties Walk](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/lost-properties-walk/) - Join us on Sunday 14th August at 2:30pm for a walk around the village looking at sites where old properties used to stand. We will meet in the Henty Arms Car Park, walk down through the village and conservation area, through the cricket field, along Sea Lane, Pattersons Walk, Ocean Drive, Ferringham Lane, finishing off
- [Members Pages - Ferring](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/members-pages/) - 19th Century Ferring : The 19th Century in Ferring is well documented – in Census reports and records of land ownership such as the Tithe Redemption survey of 1837-40, the acquisition of land for the railway a few years later, and the conversion of leaseholds and copyholds into freeholds in the following decades. There are
- [We do like to be beside the seaside](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/we-do-like-to-be-beside-the-seaside/) - CHRISTMAS SOCIAL & TALK BY IAN GLEDHILL DECEMBER 14th 2018 REPORT BY STEPHEN WEBBE A warm and sunny talk on seaside resorts was just what the Ferring History Group needed on a perishing cold night when it gathered for its annual Christmas beano on December 14th. The guest speaker in Ferring's village hall was the
- [The West Sussex Constabulary](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/the-west-sussex-constabulary/) - Report by Stephen Webbe When Malcolm Barrett arrived to talk to us on August 3rd he came equipped with a veritable museum. There were truncheons and handcuffs, a pair of spurs, several whistles, and an odd shaped torch. What looked like a cutlass was actually a hanger that was etched with the words “West Sussex
- [The Drowning of Kingston Chapel](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/the-drowning-of-kingston-chapel-2/) - The Drowning of Kingston Chapel by Stephen Webbe They’re not as beguiling as Wild West ghost towns with tumbleweed blowing down the main street, rickety boardwalks and swing doors on abandoned saloons creaking in the wind. But they’re every inch deserted settlements. Of the Sussex variety, that is. West Sussex can claim at least 50
- [The Long History of Highdown](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/the-long-history-of-highdown/) - The Long History of Highdown by Ed Miller Highdown is is an outstanding local landscape feature with a nationally-important Ancient Monument at the
- [Rye and Camber](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/rye-and-camber/) - FERRING HISTORY GROUP TALK ON: “RYE AND CAMBER” BY: DR. GEOFFREY MEAD REPORT BY: STEPHEN WEBBE DATE: NOVEMBER 2nd 2018 For many of us in West Sussex, the hilltop town of Rye with its delectable half-timbered houses and winding medieval streets can seem beyond the borders of the known world. It’s a long way off,
- [Napoleon Threatens Sussex](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/napoleon-threatens-sussex/) - Report by Stephen Webbe of Helen Poole’s talk at our February 2018 meeting We all know that Napoleon didn’t land in Sussex. But until he was trounced at Waterloo the people of Sussex lived with the terrifying possibility that his all-conquering troops might storm ashore somewhere on the county’s long, empty coastline. Unaware of the
- [John Pull, local archaeologist hero](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/john-pull-local-archaeologist-hero/) - JOHN PULL – WORKING CLASS HERO by Stephen Webbe A working-class hero in genteel, conservative, ever-so-slightly toffee-nosed Worthing? In a prim resort where the cultured retired took tea at Fuller’s, bought water colours at Aldridge’s and gave the fleshpots of Brighton the widest possible berth? Not unexpectedly, Worthing’s man of the people was no
- [Napoleon and Sussex](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/napoleon-and-sussex/) - NAPOLEON THREATENS SUSSEX Report by Stephen Webbe of Helen Poole’s talk at our February 2018 meeting We all know that Napoleon didn’t land in Sussex. But until he was trounced at Waterloo the people of Sussex lived with the terrifying possibility that his all-conquering troops might storm ashore somewhere on the county’s long, empty coastline. Unaware of the
- [John Pull - local hero archaeologist](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/john-pull-local-hero-archaeologist/) - JOHN PULL – WORKING CLASS HERO by Stephen Webbe A working-class hero in genteel, conservative, ever-so-slightly toffee-nosed Worthing? In a prim resort where the cultured retired took tea at Fuller’s, bought water colours at Aldridge’s and gave the fleshpots of Brighton the widest possible berth? Not unexpectedly, Worthing’s man of the people was no
- [History of West Sussex Constabulary](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/history-of-west-sussex-constabulary/) - THE WEST SUSSEX CONSTABULARY report by Stephen Webbe When Malcolm Barrett arrived to talk to us on August 3rd he came equipped with a veritable museum. There were truncheons and handcuffs, a pair of spurs, several whistles, and an odd shaped torch. What looked like a cutlass was actually a hanger that was etched
- [Electric Pictures - filming in Worthing, Lancing and Shoreham](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/electric-pictures-filming-in-worthing-lancing-and-shoreham/) - FERRING HISTORY GROUP TALK BY ELLEN CHESHIRE FEBRUARY 1st 2019 REPORT BY STEPHEN WEBBE If you know why two giant swastika banners were hanging from the facade of Shoreham airport in 2015 and what a Scottish inventor was doing with an unwieldy camera on the Worthing seafront in 1898, you probably went along to a
- [Castles in Sussex](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/castles-in-sussex/) - ‘When is a castle not a castle’ was one of the questions posed by John Bleach, former custodian of Lewes Castle and an expert on the Sussex Castles, at Ferring History Group’s August meeting, the first since Covid. The answer, perhaps, he said, was ‘When it is a crenellated manor house’. The early Norman castles
- [St Andrew's Church: the first 1250 years](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/st-andrews-church-the-first-1250-years/) - By David Garnett 2015 marked the 1250th anniversary of the grant of land by Osmund, King of the South Saxons, in AD 765, “for the building of a monastery” in Ferring. A second charter, in AD 791, was for a grant of woodland to “the church of Saint Andrew, which is situated in the land
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/privacy/) - Privacy Policy Details This website privacy policy describes how Ferring History Group protects and makes use of the information you give the company when you use this website. If you are asked to provide information when using this website, it will only be used in the ways described in this privacy policy. This policy is
- [North Ferring and Highdown](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/history-walks-in-ferring/north-ferring-and-highdown/) - A Walk in north Ferring and Highdown Some History Group members did the North Ferring walk on a lovely late Summer day on 16 August. If you were not able to join us here are some notes, with which you can do it yourself. Start at the Henty Arms, until 1928 called ‘New Inn’. Notice
- [History Around Ferring](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/history-around-ferring/) - Ferring has close associations with Kingston and East Preston, dating far back to the early days of Ferring's 'Minster Church', and of course, to its neighbours to the north and west - Angmering and Goring. Angmering's history is very well documented on its 'Village Life' web site and there are two books (both long out
- [Steam in the South](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/steam-in-the-south/) - Bill Gage paid a return visit to Ferring History Group a few days after retiring after 45 years as Assistant County Archivist at the Record Office in Chichester. Bill’s speciality is railway history and he gave us a lively presentation on the steam era in Sussex, illustrated by excellent photographs of locomotives, special events and
- [Ferring in the 1920s](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/20th-century/ferring-in-the-1920s/) - The Census taken on 19 June 1921 showed the population of Ferring to be 256, virtually the same as it had been all through the 19th Century and, no doubt, for many centuries before. The village consisted of a group of cottages around the church and Ferring Grange (built on the site of the old
- [Ferring in the 1940s](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/20th-century/ferring-in-the-1940s/) - The Development of Ferring The 1943 Ordnance Survey 25 inch map shows great expanses of Ferring still open fields, and several roads that are very familiar to us now, strangely curtailed, or with surprisingly few houses. The whole area south of Onslow Drive and west of Ferring Street, right down to Greystoke Manor (then ‘St
- [Ferring in the 1930s](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/20th-century/ferring-in-the-1930s/) - Up to 1924 the population of Ferring was about 250 – about what it had been in 1824. It was still a farming village. Then Mrs Henty, the last of the family who had dominated Ferring for 140 years, sold Ferring Grange and Home Farm, the southern half of Ferring, to developers. Houses were built
- [Ferring 1911-1920](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/20th-century/ferring-1911-1920/) - The second decade of the 20th Century was, of course, dominated by the World War and its immediate aftermath. In Ferring, some 25 men served in the forces, more than half of the eligible age group, with those who stayed behind having to work that much harder on the land. Five men were killed, at
- [Ferring 1901-1910](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/20th-century/ferring-1901-1910/) - Ferring in 1901 The Census return for Ferring in 1901 became available on microfiche in 2002: a close study of it, and detailed comparison with the returns from the 1841-1891 censuses, throws up much interesting information about the village. There were 242 people staying on Census night, and 59 households – almost exactly the same
- [Ferring Photographs of the 1890s](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/19th-century/photographs-of-9th-century-ferring/) - Ferring Photographs of the 1890s The picture below is a portrait of John and Jane Moore, taken by Walter Gardiner in 1894. They had been married for 70 years and lived at Vine Cottage, Ferring Street. The cottage is still there, immediately north of Rose Cottage, opposite the shops. John Moore was born, in Ferring in 1804,
- [Ferring Portraits of the 1860s](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/19th-century/ferring-portraits-of-the-1860s/) - Ferring portraits of the 1860s A few early photographs of people in Ferring have turned up on the internet – all from the 1860s. The identity of the first is very clear because of a contemporary inscription on the back – John Cortis, one of the dynasty that farmed East Ferring from the late 17th
- [Ferring in 1841](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/19th-century/ferring-in-1841/) - We have at least three good pieces of evidence for land ownership, occupation and residence in 1841. Most informative is the Tithe Redemption Settlement of 1840, listing every field and cottage and the map of 1837 locating them. Then we have the 1841 Census, the first to show households, with names, ages and occupations. Finally,
- [19th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/19th-century/) - The 19th Century in Ferring is well documented - in Census reports and records of land ownership such as the Tithe Redemption survey of 1837-40, the acquisition of land for the railway a few years later, and the conversion of leaseholds and copyholds into freeholds in the following decades. There are also items in local,
- [Ferring in the 18th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-18th-century/) - The 18th century in Ferring is even better documented than the previous 100 years: in addition to the Manor Court records (both manors), Parish Registers, wills, and probate inventories, we have several detailed leases and property surveys, the Land Tax records from 1780, many surviving buildings and many gravestones in the churchyard. We even have
- [History Walks in Ferring](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/history-walks-in-ferring/)
- [20th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/pages-for-subscribers/20th-century/) - The Twentieth Century is, of course, the best documented in Ferring's history, with a wealth of official records, maps, street directories, newspapers, contemporary photographs and, as far back as the 1930s, the memories of our oldest residents. The articles in the following pages are based on those sources.
- [The Ferring Manors](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/the-ferring-manors/) - The Domesday survey shows that the Bishop of Chichester was the Lord of the Manor of ‘Feringes’, and held it as a demesne. Part of the manor was held by Ansfrid, presumably as a sub-tenant, and by the 16th century this holding was being described as the manor of East Ferring, as distinct from the
- [An Outline History of Ferring](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/outline-history-of-ferring/) - There are two main sources for Ferring’s history: archaeology and the written record. The archaeology is still being revealed, as new housing and road developments yield artefacts and ancient disturbances of the soil and subsoil: the written records are well-known to local historians, except that every ten years a new decade of the census records
- [Ferring before Domesday](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-before-domesday/) - Ferring was farmland for at least 900 years before the sale of the southern half of the parish for housing development in 1924. The Domesday survey of 1086 refers to its arable land, meadows (for cattle), and woodland where pigs were kept. It says that in the time of Edward the Confessor (1042 -1066) the
- [Ferring in the 20th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-20th-century/) - The beginning of the new century is marked by the 1901 Census – a detailed account of all the housing and inhabitants of the parish. It shows little change from the census of ten years earlier: the population was slightly up at 243 but there had been hardly any new buildings or demolitions. The Land
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- [Ferring in the 19th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-19th-century/) - The 19th Century gives us a great wealth of new sources for local history – a full Tithe survey, the Census reports, newspapers, photographs, Ordnance Survey maps and, towards the end of the century, local government records. In Ferring, there were substantial changes in land ownership and farm management but for most residents, life was
- [Ferring in the 17th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-17th-century/) - The 17th Century was an even more turbulent period in British history than the 16th. The death of Elizabeth, the conflict between the first two Stuart kings and the Parliaments, culminating in the Civil War, was followed by the Commonwealth, the Protectorate and the Restoration. Twenty five years of the restored monarchy was then followed
- [Ferring in the 16th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-16th-century/) - There are many more sources for Ferring’s history in the 16th Century than for the mediaeval period. Chief among these are the records of the Manor Court – that is to say the Bishop’s manor of ‘Ferring and Fure’: no records have survived from this period for the East Ferring manor court, only references to
- [Ferring in the 12th and 13th Centuries](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-12th-and-13th-centuries/) - There a few documentary sources for Ferring history in the 12th and 13th centuries, and no archaeology. On the other hand, we have St Andrew's church, rebuilt in the period and hardly altered since. The Domesday entry gives the basic economic and social structure of Ferring towards the end of the 11th Century and much
- [Ferring in the 11th Century - Domesday Book](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-domesday-book/) - The Domesday survey was ordered by William I, as an assessment of the taxable wealth of the country. In 1086 his officers went into every town and village to record who 'owned' land, how many sub-tenants he had, and how much wealth the land could generate. It was not a survey of buildings, so that
- [Ferring in the 15th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-15th-century/) - The main source of information about Ferring between 1400 and 1500 is the Account of the Reeve (the Bishop’s farm agent) for 1430. This has been preserved among the Archbishop of Canterbury’s records because, for that year, there was a vacancy for the Bishopric of Chichester and the revenues went to the Archbishop while the
- [Ferring in the 14th Century](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ferring-in-the-14th-century/) - The surviving documents from the 1300s provide many more references to Ferring that those of the previous two centuries. They are mainly records of land transactions, which provide us with names of landholders, but there are also more taxation lists and a survey of the Bishop’s estate in Ferring. The picture is still one of

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- [Laburnham Cottage](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/laburnham-cottage/)
- [War Memorial](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/war-memorial/)
- [Ocean Drive late 1920s](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/ocean-drive-late-1920s/)
- [Goring Hall Gates](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/goring-hall-gates/)
- [Bail out day](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/bail-out-day/)
- [Crack before repair](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/crack-before-repair/)
- [Crack after repair](https://www.ferringhistorygroup.co.uk/ngg_tag/crack-after-repair/)