Storrington, Sussex
Historical Description
Storrington, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 4¼ miles from Pulborough station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 7 from Steyning, and consists of a long street, with another going off at right angles. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Pulborough. The parish contains the hamlet of Cootham. Acreage, 3249; population, 1293. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members and a chairman. Fryern House and Storrington Abbey are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £320 with residence. The church is good, and has been restored and enlarged. The priory of Our Lady of England, opened in 1888, belongs to canons regular of the Premonstratensian order, and has a chapel attached. There is a mission church at Cootham.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Storrington St. Mary | |
| Hundred | West Easwrith | |
| Poor Law union | Thakeham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Storrington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Storrington (St. Mary))
Maps
Online maps of Storrington 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: