Ovingdean, Sussex

Historical Description

Ovingdean, a parish in Sussex, near the coast, 4¼ miles E by S of Brighton station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town,. Brighton; money order and telegraph office, Rottingdean. Acreage. 1630; population, 161. Charles II. is said to nave-lain concealed a short time at Ovingdean after the battle of Worcester, and prior to his departure from Shoreham to France. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £230 with residence. The church stands on a hillside; is partly Sason, partly Norman, and partly Early English; and consists of nave and chancel, with a porch and tower.

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 Ovingdean from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Ovingdean 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