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dimensions, and nearly similar description, in point of soil and 
situation, in a narrow valley between the headlands formed by the 
range of downs by which this district of the county is intersected. 
It contains 4682 acres 2 roods and 38 perches from actual measure- 
ment,* with down and forest land in the same large proportion ; 
and abounds in beautiful groves of beech wood. The confines 
are Singleton on the west, Cocking and Heyshot on the north, 
Up-Waltham on the east, and Eastham on the south. The 
village lies on the western extremity of the parish, about seven 
miles from Chichester [and the same distance south by east from 
Midhurst]. 
“ Domesday includes this parish in Silleton, and gives no 
distinct description of it. In the 23rd of Henry II. the manor 
was held by William de Albini, Earl of Arundel, of the King in 
capite, as of the honor of the Castle of Arundel. It passed by 
partition, on the demise of Earl Hugh, to John Fitz Alan, whose 
descendants made a large park with a mansion there; and in the 
18th of Henry VI. it was found to have been a member of the 
jointure settled upon Beatrice, relict of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, 
who died in 1414 without issue. Having devolved to John, Lord 
Lumley,t it was by him for the first time aliened by sale, in 1589, 
to Peter Garton, of Gray’s Inn, London, who was afterwards 
knighted. 
“ Selhurst Park, containing 886 acres, descended to Philip, Karl 
of Arundel; and in 1797 was transferred by sale to the late 
Charles, Duke of Richmond, by the late Charles, Duke of 
Norfolk. 
“In the family of Garton, the manor appears to have been 
vested considerably above a century, when it was inherited by 
Garton Orme, Esq., of Peterborough, in pursuance of the will of 
the last William Garton, Esq., who died without issue. 
“In 1752, in consequence of an Act obtained in 1750 for 
that purpose, the manorial property was sold to Sir Matthew 
Fetherstonehaugh, Bart., as held of the paramount manor of 
Stanstede,{ who exchanged it with Charles, the late Duke of 
* Arable, 1896 acres 2 roods 2 perches; Down, 2076 3 roods 29 perches; Woods, 
691 acres 32 perches. 
+ An ancestor of the present Earl of Scarborough. 
t Sold for £12,000. See also Horsfield, ‘ History and Antiquities of the County of 
Sussex,’ vol. ii., pp. 79, 80. 
