Kingston by Sea, Sussex

Historical Description

Kingston-by-Sea or Kingston Bowsey, a parish in Sussex, 4 miles from Brighton. It has a goods station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 55 miles from London. Post town, Brighton. Acreage, 778; population, 253. Two corn warehouses, large making houses, bonding warehouses, a custom house, ponds, and quays are here, and a large traffic goes on between the railway station and the harbour. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £240 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is of the 14th century, but has been completely renovated.

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.

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 Kingston by Sea from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kingston-By-Sea, or Kingston-Bowsey)

Maps

Online maps of Kingston by Sea 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