Findon, Sussex

Historical Description

Findon, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near Cissbury Hill, 4 miles NNW of Worthing station on the L.B. & S.O.R., and 4 WSW of Steyning, is a pleasant place with fine environs, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Worthing, and two annual fairs. The parish comprises 4370 acres; population, 775. Findon Place belonged formerly to the Westwoods. The parish is a resort for sportsmen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £20. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church has Early English portions, contains two stone seats with intermediate door, and is good.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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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 Findon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Findon (St. John the Baptist))

Maps

Online maps of Findon 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