Sompting, Sussex

Historical Description

Sompting, a rural parish, including the hamlet of Cokeham, in Sussex, 2½ miles NNE of Worthing station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post and money order office under Worthing; telegraph office, Broadwater. Acreage, 2917; population, 700. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor of Sompting Abbots belonged once to Fecamp Abbey, and belongs now to the Crofts family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £210 with residence. The church is cruciform, is chiefly Norman and Early English, and has been restored. It has a Saxon tower with a spire of which no other specimen of like age is to be seen in England. A reading-room was erected in 1889.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sompting from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Sompting 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