Aldrington or Atherington, Sussex

Historical Description

Aldrington or Atherington, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, near the South Coast railway, 3 miles W of Brighton, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Hove. Acreage, 761; population of the civil parish, 2238; of the ecclesiastical, 2222. A village here, which antiquaries suppose to have been the Portns Adurni of the Romans, which some also suppose to have been given by King Alfred to his younger son, and which came to bear the same name as the parish, was destroyed at no very late period by encroachment of the sea. So much of the parish also was carried away that not an inhabitant was found in it at the censuses of 1801-31. The church, after having been in ruins for 800 years, was rebuilt in 1878 by the Ingram family, to whom the estate formerly belonged. Parts of the old church, especially the east wall and tower, are incorporated in the present building. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £215. The Hove Cemetery, formed in 1882, is in this parish. There is a canal and floating basin. The population has largely increased since last census, and is still increasing.

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.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aldrington or Atherington from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Aldrington or Atherington 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