Harting, Sussex

Historical Description

Harting, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 4 miles ESE of Petersfield, and has a station called Rogate and Harting on the L. & S.W.R., 68 miles from London. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Petersfield. The parish includes also the hamlets of East Harting and West Harting, the former contiguous to the village, the latter about a mile to the NW. Acreage, 7946; population, 1279. The manor belonged, in the time of the Confessor, to Countess Gida, was known at Domesday as Hertinges, passed after the Conquest to Earl Montgomery, went at the attainder of the third Earl to the Crown, was given in 1610 to Sir Edward Caryll, and was purchased in 1746 by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bart. Up Park is the seat of the Fetherstonhaughs. A lepers' hospital was founded in the parish, in the time of Henry IL, by Henry de Hoese. The living is two-fold, a vicarage and a sinecure rectory, in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £880 with residence. The church is ancient, was partly restored in 1854, partly rebuilt in 1858, and has a tower with copper spire. There are Congregational, Methodist, and Calvinistic chapels. Anthony TroUope, the novelist, lived for some years in this parish.

Administration

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Harting from the following:

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