Racton, Sussex

Historical Description

Racton, a parish in Sussex, 2¾ miles NNE of Emsworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6½ WNW of Chichester. It includes the chapelry of Lordington, and its post town is Emsworth; money order and telegraph office, Westbourne. Acreage, 1199; population of the civil parish, 100; of the ecclesiastical, 52. Lordington House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Lordington, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £130;. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is Early English, and contains a fine monument to one of the Counters, an ancestor of Col. Counter who aided Charlea II. in his escape.

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 Racton from the following:

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

Newspapers and Periodicals

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• 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