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Tarring, West, or Tarring Peverel, Sussex

Historical Description

Tarring, West, or Tarring Peverel, a parish in Sussex, adjoining the town of Worthing, with a railway station at West Worthing. It includes the hamlet of Salvington, and the parish of Durrington has been ecclesiastically united with Tarring for several centuries. There are post offices at West Tarring, Tarring Crossing, and Salvington; telegraph offices at the two former and at the station. Tarring was constituted a market town by King Henry VI. in 1444. Acreage, 1192; population, 1350. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The oldest fig orchard in England is in this parish. The old archiepiscopal palace has been restored, and is now used as the parish school. The rectory manor was given by Athelstan to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who still presents to the benefice. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester, to which is annexed the vicarage of Durrington; gross value, £450 with residence. The church is good, has lofty spire, good mediaeval choir stalls and handsome mosaics. Selden was a native of Salvington; his father's house remains intact.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySussex 
HundredTarring 

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