Woolavington, Sussex

Historical Description

Woolavington, a parish in Sussex, 4 miles from Petworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office, of the name of Lavington, under Petworth; money order and telegraph office, Petworth. Acreage, 2390; population, 405. Lavington House belongs to the Wilberforce family. The living, united ecclesiastically to Graffham, is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £105. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and contains some brasses to the Wilberforce and other families.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Woolavington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wool-Lavington, East and West)

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