Kingston, Sussex

Historical Description

Kingston, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, 1½ mile SET of Angmering station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5 miles W of Worthing. Post town, Worthing; money order and telegraph office, Angmering. Acreage, 424 of land and 185 of water and foreshore; population, 43. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Ferriug, in the diocese of Chi-chester. The church was washed away by the sea about 1650.

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 Kingston from the following:

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

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