Heene, Sussex

Historical Description

Heene, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 60 miles from London, and about half a mile W of Worthing town. Post town, Worthing. Acreage, 426; population, 1691. There are several mansions, a first-class hotel, baths, assembly rooms, and waterworks. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church was built in 1873, and is in the Gothic style, with tower and spire.

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 Heene from the following:

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

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