Washington, Sussex
Historical Description
Washington, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands 4¼ miles WNW of Steyning station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office under Pulborongh; money order and telegraph office, Storrington. Acreage of the civil parish, 3206; population, 838; of the ecclesiastical, 596. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Highden House and Rowdell House are the chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £135 with residence. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1867. On a farm in this parish in 1806 a crock of ancient coins was discovered, consisting of no less than 3000 pennies belonging to the reigns of Edward the Confessor and Harold II.; they were all forwarded to the British Museum.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Sussex | |
| Hundred | Steyning | |
| 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 Washington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Washington)
Maps
Online maps of Washington 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: