Donnington, Sussex

Historical Description

Donnington, a parish in Sussex, 2 miles S of Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Chichester. Acreage, 1039; population, 191. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £200. Patron, the Queen. The church is Early English, in very good condition, and has an ivy-mantled tower.

Civil Registration

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

Maps

Online maps of Donnington 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