West Wittering, Sussex

Historical Description

Wittering, West, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, on the coast, 3 miles from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post and money order office under Chichester; telegraph office, Chichester. Acreage, 2320 of land and 980 of water and foreshore; population, 582. Cakeham is the seat of the Gorham family. A palace of the Bishops of Chichester once stood here, and a lofty brick hexagonal tower connected with it, and built in the early part of the 16th century, still stands. There are two coastguard stations in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ohiches-ter; gross value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored. There is a Bible Christian chapel.

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 West Wittering from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of West Wittering 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