Bury, West Sussex :: The British Place Names Website

Other current and historical names

Berie

Built-Up Area: Bury
Parish/Community: Bury
District/Borough: Chichester
County: West Sussex
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°54'33"N 0°33'47"W
Eastings/Northings: 501108, 113188
OS Grid: TQ011131
Mapcode Local: GBR FHF.VT9
Mapcode Global: FRA 96QP.SF5

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Bury within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Bury in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Bury, hundred, Arundel rape, W. Sussex, 20,161 ac., pop. 3801; contains 8 pars. and part of another.

Bury in the Domesday Book

A village in Bury hundred, in the county of Sussex.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Countess Goda
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Fécamp
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Fécamp
- Taxable Value: 16 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £12 in 1066; £12 in 1070; £24 in 1086
- Households: 48 villagers; 22 cottagers
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 18 men's ploughs (16 plough lands)
- Meadow: 30 acres
- Woodland: 40 swine render
- Churches: 1
- Other resources: 1 fishery

British Place Names

Bury, West Sussex

Bury is a village in West Sussex

Bury in historic gazetteers

Bury in the Domesday Book