Stopham

Stopham
Stopham Bridge
Stopham  Stopham shown within West Sussex
Area	3.54 km2 (1.37 sq mi)
Population	87  2001 Census
- Density	25 /km2 (65 /sq mi)
OS grid reference	TQ026189
- London	42 miles (68 km) NNE
Civil parish	Stopham
District	Chichester
Shire county	West Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PULBOROUGH
Postcode district	RH20
Dialling code	01798
Police	Sussex
Fire	West Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Horsham
List of places: UK • England • West Sussex

Stopham is a hamlet and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England located two kilometres (1.4 miles) west of Pulborough on the A283 road.

The parish has a land area of 354 hectares (874 acres). In the 2001 census 87 people lived in 39 households, of whom 40 were economically active.

Stopham has an Anglo-Saxon Anglican church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, located a few hundred metres north of the A283 road together with an ancient Manor house. The parish is bounded to the east by the River Arun, crossed by Stopham bridge built in 1423. The River Rother forms the southern boundary of the parish from its confluence with the Arun below Stopham Bridge. In the 1790s the Rother was made navigable to Midhurst beginning with a canal cut from the Arun between the Rother and the A283 road. The first lock was built in the grounds of Stopham House. Stopham or Stopeham is recorded in the Domesday Book and has belonged to the same family, the Bartletts or Barttelots since the Norman Conquest. Since 1875 they have been baronets.

The village green

External links

• Stopham Church
• Bartlett Family History
• Stopham Ancient Bridge
• P A L Vine, London's Lost Route to Midhurst The Earl of Egremont's Navigation