Ferring, Sussex

Historical Description

Ferring, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, 1 miTe 'W of Goring station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3½ miles W of Worthing. It has a post and money order office under "Worthing; telegraph office, Goring. Acreage, 948; population of the civil parish, 226;of the ecclesiastical, with Kingston, near Worthing, and East Preston, 686. The living is a vicarage, united with Kingston and East Preston, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £246 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is good. Ferris Beer. See BEER FERRIS. Ferris Norton. See NORTON FERRIS. Ferry, a station on the Midland and Great Northern Junction railway, 3½ miles N of Wisheach.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Ferring from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ferring 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