Tortington, Sussex
Historical Description
Tortington, a parish in Sussex, near Ford station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 2 miles SSW of Arundel. Post town, Arundel. Acreage, 1116; population, 288. An Augustinian priory was founded here before the time of King John by Lady Alicia Corbet, was given at the Dissolution to Lord Maltravers, and is now represented by a portion of its refectory, used as a barn. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £110. Patron, the Duke of Norfolk. The church is a building of flint in the Norman style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Hundred | Avisford |
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 Tortington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tortington)
Maps
Online maps of Tortington 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: