Goring, Sussex

Historical Description

Goring, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the coast, 2 miles W of Worthing, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 62 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Worthing. The parish comprises 2014 acres; population, 561. Goring Hall is the principal residence. Castle Goring was long the residence of the Shelleys, from whom sprang the poet Shelley, and passed to Sir G. B. Pechell, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £280 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1837 at a cost of £4200.

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Goring from the following:

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

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