Middleton, Sussex

Historical Description

Middleton, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, 3 miles E of Bognor station. It includes the hamlet of Elmer, and its post town is Bognor. Acreage, 370; population, 40. Much land has been removed by encroachment of the sea. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £120. The old church was swept away by the sea, and the present church was built in 1849.

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 Middleton from the following:

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

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