Durrington, Sussex

Historical Description

Durrington, a parish in Sussex, on the southern slope of the South Downs, 1¼ mile N from West Worthing station, and l¼ NE from Goring station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, Worthing; money order office, Goring or West Tarring. Acreage, 891; population, 175. The church, dating from the 12th century, has been in ruins since 1752. The ruins are picturesque, but of no special architectural interest. A small iron church, adjoining the ruins, was erected in 1890.

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 Durrington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Durrington)

Maps

Online maps of Durrington 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