Stoughton, Sussex
Historical Description
Stoughton, a parish in Sussex, 5 miles from Emsworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6 NW of Chichester. It contains Walderton tithing, Forest Side hamlet, and part of East Marden village. Post town, Emsworth. Acreage, 5374; population of the civil parish, 604; of the ecclesiastical, 325. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £180 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is Early English. The vicarage of Forest Side with Stansted is a separate benefice.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Maps
Online maps of Stoughton 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: