Portslade, Sussex

Historical Description

Portslade, a township and a parish in Sussex. The township stands about a mile from the sea, with a station on the L.B. & S.C.R. 52 miles from London, and 4 W by N of Brighton. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Brighton. Acreage, 1951; population of the township, 4240; of the ecclesiastical parish of Portslade St Nicholas, 2281; of Portslade-by-Sea, 1975. There is a parish council consisting of fifteen members. There is a canal and floating basin in connection with Shoreham harbour for the convenience of the coal and timber trade of Brighton and its neighbourhead. The Manor House, Portslade House, and East Hill are chief residences, and command extensive views. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Hangleton, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, Lord Sackville. The church is Early English, in good condition. St Andrew's Church is a building of flint in the Early English style, erected in 1864. The living is a vicarage; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. There are Baptist chapels and a mission hall. An extensive pale ale brewery and the gasworks of the Brighton and Howe Gas Company are in the 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 Portslade from the following:

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

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