A walking trail for Chichester pubs, inns and hotels was one of 8 trails produced by The Chichester Society in the form of leaflets with funding from the Heritage Lottery. No funds were forthcoming for reprinting the 8 leaflets, so to make them available to a wider audience they were all independently digitised and published on the Society’s website using Google maps.
The opportunity was then taken to extend digital coverage of the pubs by undertaking further research to include earlier establlishments that could be identified. The result can be viewed below. This mapping and pub details will be maintained and updated on this site alone as new information becomes available. (The sources of information used are detailed at the end of this page)
Visitors are invited to contribute with comments or additional information via our contact form.
To view the map you are recommended to enlarge it by clicking on the four-cornered symbol in the top right hand corner.
A key linking numbers to names of establishments can be downloaded here. NOTE that numbers 1 through 19 can be used as a walking trail as they include guidance at the end of the pub descriptions.
PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION
The updating of the trail initially relied almost exclusively on online sources. The amount of information gathered was limited by time constraints and what was available from the online sources. A main focus was to gather names of licensees/landlords. The publication ‘Chichester Pubs’ by David Middleton, Amberley Publishing 2017 was used as an aide memoire rather than a direct source for information for which the sources below were used.
An Account of the Proceedings, at the Contested Election for the City of Chichester, June, 1826
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=GDCY69EV_kYC&rdid=book-GDCY69EV_kYC&rdot=1
Beer in the evening
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/results.shtml/el/Chichester%3BWest%20Sussex/
Bibliography – Industry and work: Hotels, Pubs & Inns
https://www.sussexrecordsociety.org/dbs/biblio/subjects/Inns/
Breweries
http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
British history Chichester
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol3/pp71-82
British Newspapers archives
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Chichester Collectable Sussex Postcards
https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Chichester-Collectable-Sussex-Postcards/63815/bn_10319429?_pgn=3
Daily papers online
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives#Europe
Films
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-in-ancient-sussex-1915-online
https://player.bfi.org.uk/search/free?q=chichester
Flashback Chichester
https://www.facebook.com/groups/flchichester/about
Former pubs in Chi
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/naxchi/former-pubs-in-chichester/
Francis Frith collections
https://www.francisfrith.com/chichester
Gavelroots website
https://www.gravelroots.net/
Images of Chichester
https://www.chichesterweb.co.uk/
Kelly’s Directories, Post Office Directories, Mellville & Co Directories, Pigot’s Directories various from 1832
University of Leicester special collections
Listed buildings
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/chichester-chichester-west-sussex
Local pubs
https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubmap/81935/
Lost pubs in sussex
https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/sussex/chichester.html
https://www.pinterest.com.au/naxchi/former-pubs-in-chichester/
Maps
OldMaps
National Library of Scotland
Old Maps Online
Vision of Britain
Magic (Geographic information)
GeoHack
Postcards
http://www.sussexpostcards.info/map.html
https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Chichester-Collectable-Sussex-Postcards/63815/bn_10319429?_pgn=3
Public Houses, Inns & Taverns of Chichester, Sussex
https://pubwiki.co.uk/SussexPubs/Chichester/
Richard Heaton’s Newspaper Collection
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/genealogy/ZOtherPapers/Index.html
Sussex Directories 1784-1975 Joun H. Farrant
http://www.sussexias.co.uk/directories.htm
Sussex Photo History
http://photohistory-sussex.co.uk/
The Chichester guide, and directory, with extensive memorandums relative to Bognor &c rev. Alexander Hay 1805
https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=rev.+Alexander+Hay
The Inns and Taverns of Western Sussex 1550-1700 by Janet Pennington. Jan 2003
https://chichestersociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/March-2022.pdf2022/06/Newsletter-March-2022.pdf2022/06/December-2021.pdf2021/04/december-2020.pdf2020/12/The-inns-and-taverns-of-western-sussex-1550-1700.pdf
UK Census for Chichester
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
Westgate Residents Association
http://www.westgatera.org.uk/
WSCC Records office photos
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/
Roger Mouncher
says:
December 21, 2024 at 9:50 am Edit
Some year ago, whilst living in Chichester, I was a regular customer of the Eastgate Inn (then a Gale’s Ales pub). I remember a framed and hand drawn map by Mervyn Cutten, of all known pubs in thr City. Does anyone know where I might be able to find a copy please?
Bob
says:
December 22, 2024 at 5:35 pm Edit
The map was reproduced in the Chichester local history Chichester Paper No 46, Some Inns and Ale Houses of Chichester by Mervyn Cutten. Although long out of print a copy might be obtainable from Kim’s Bookshop in Arundel. Alternatively a copy can be consulted at West Sussex Record office