In the 4 years to the printing of the 1855 directory [below] a number of changes are seen.

Heyshott is a small village and parish, 2 miles south from Midhurst, in the Western division of the county, Sutton union, Easebourne hundred, Chichester rape, diocese and archdeaconry, Midhurst rural deanery and county court district.
The manor originally formed a part of the possessions held by William de Perci, of Roger, Earl de Montgomery: in the reign of Henry VIII. Henry Earl of Northumberland sold the lordship to Sir William Fitzwilliam, who held it of the king as part of the honour of Petworth: in 1761 it passed to the Earl of Egremont, and is now the property of Lord Leconfield.
The church is a small building, which has been restored, in the Decorated and later styles of English architecture: it presents no feature of interest. The register commences in 1690. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Stedham, annual value £580, in the gift of the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt and Hon. Mrs. Vernon Harcourt, and held by the Rev. Caleb Collins, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at Stedham. Dunford is the seat of Messrs. Cobden.

Heyshott is a village near the road from Midhurst to Chichester, 2½ miles south from Midhurst and 1½ east from Cocking station, on the Chichester & Midhurst branch , of the London, Brighton & South Coast railway.
The church of St James is of stone & flint, in the Decorated & Perpendicular styles, and has a turret containing 3 bells, there are 220 sittings.
The churchyard has been much enlarged by the present rector, The register commences in the year 1690. The living is a rectory, formerly annexed to that of Stedham, net yearly value £120, with 14 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of H. C. Houndle esq. of the Inner Temple, and held since 1897 by the Revd. Edward Laffan Garvock Houndle, a rectory house was built by the late rector in 1884 at a cost of £1,000.
The Cobden Club, with a small library and reading room, was opened by Mrs Fisher Unwin, formerly Miss Cobden, for the benefit of the villagers.
Dunford, also in this parish, was the birthplace, 3rd June 1804, of Richard Cobden M.P. the distinguished champion of Free Trade, and founder of the National Anti-Corn Law League, he died in London, April 2nd 1865, and is buried at West Lavington, which adjoins this parish.
Public Elementary School [mixed], built in 1863, for 110 children; average attendance, 45, Miss Clara Martin, head-mistress