Ashington, Sussex

Historical Description

Ashington, with North Wachington, a parish in Sussex, 5 miles NW of Steyning station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It contains the chapelry of Buncton, and has a post and money order office under Pulborough; telegraph office is at Storring-ton. Acreage, 1012; population of the civil parish, 219; of the ecclesiastical district, 502. The living is a rectory, united with the curacy of Buncton, in the diocese of Chi-chester; gross value, £275. The church is good, and was almost entirely restored in 1872.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ashington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashington cum Buncton (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Maps

Online maps of Ashington are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer