Tillington, Sussex

Historical Description

Tillington, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, 2 miles NNW of Petworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office, of the name of Tillington Street, under Petworth; money order and telegraph office, Petworth. Acreage, 3816; population, 871. The manor belongs to Lord Leconfield. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £420 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is partly Decorated English. There are two almshouses for aged labourers.

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 Tillington from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Tillington 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