Place:East Preston, Sussex, England

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NameEast Preston
Alt namesAngmering on Seasource: settlement in parish
The Willowhaynesource: settlement in parish
TypeParish
Coordinates50.8102°N 0.4847°W
Located inSussex, England
Also located inWest Sussex, England     (1865 - )
See alsoArundel Rape, Sussex, Englandrape in which it was located
Poling Hundred, Sussex, Englandhundred in which it was located
East Preston Rural, Sussex, Englandrural district 1894-1933
Worthing Rural, Sussex, Englandrural district 1933-1974
Arun District, West Sussex, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
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East Preston is a civil parish on the English Channel coast in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly halfway between Littlehampton and Worthing.

The parish has an area of 2.00 km2 (0.77 sq mi) and had a population of 5,938 at the UK census of 2011. It includes the settlement of Angmering on Sea (Angmering being the parish directly to the north).

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"PRESTON (East), a parish in Worthing [registration] district, Sussex; on the coast, ½ a mile S E of Angmering [railway] station, and 3 E of Littlehampton. Post-town: Littlehampton, under Arundel. Acres: 609; of which 120 are water. Real property: £1,439. Population: 320. Houses: 55. A workhouse for 19 parishes, constituting the East Preston Poor Law Union, is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 82 inmates. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ferring, in the diocese of Chichester. Charities, £14."

Research Tips

  • The West Sussex Record Office is located in Chichester. Because it holds the records of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, which covers the whole of Sussex, it has church records relating to both parts of Sussex.
  • An on-line catalogue for some of the collections held by the West Sussex Record Office is available under the Access to Archives (A2A) project (a nationwide facility housed at The National Archives, Kew).
  • West Sussex Past - database of 2 million records from West Sussex heritage organizations.
  • The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies' Sussex Collection (PDF). This is a 9-page PDF naming the files relating to Sussex in their collection-a possible first step in a course of research.
  • The National Library of Scotland has a website which provides maps taken from the Ordnance Survey England & Wales One-Inch to the Mile series of 1892-1908 as well as equivalent maps for Scotland itself. The immediate presentation is a "help" screen and a place selection screen prompting the entry of a location down to town, village or parish level. These screens can be removed by a click of the "X". The map is very clear and shows parish and county boundaries and many large buildings and estates that existed at the turn of the 20th century. Magnification can be adjusted and an "overlay feature" allows inspection of the area today along with that of 1900. The specific map from the series can be viewed as a whole ("View this map") and this allows the inspection of the map legend (found in the left hand bottom corner. Becoming familiar with the various facilities of these maps is well worth the trouble.
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