East Preston, Sussex
Historical Description
Preston, East, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, half a mile SE of Angmering station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3 miles E of Littlehampton. Post town, Worthing; money order and telegraph office, Angmering station. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 686. A workhouse for nineteen parishes, constituting the East Preston Poor-law Union, is in this parish. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarages of Ferring and Kingston, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £245 with lesidence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is a stone building in the Early English style, with an ancient stone spire. There is a coastguard station.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Hundred | Poling |
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 East Preston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Preston, East)
Maps
Online maps of East Preston 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: