East Wittering, Sussex

Historical Description

Wittering, East, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, 7 miles from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town, West Wittering, under Chichester. Acreage, 1141 of land and 177 of foreshore; population, 214. Much land has been carried away by the sea. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is a small building of stone in the Norman style, and was restored in 1877. 341

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 East Wittering from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of East Wittering 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