Hangleton Sussex Family History Guide

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Hangleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Alternative names: Hankleton

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1727
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1635

Nonconformists include:  

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

Hangleton Melville and Co.’s Directory & Gazetteer of Sussex 1858

HANGLETON is a parish, three miles N.W. from Brighton, containing but one farm-house, and a few cottages, in Fishergate hundred, Shoreham union, and Lewes rape, East Sussex. The church is a small and very ancient structure.
Hardflick, Charles, Arthur, and Alfred, farmers.

Hangleton The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HANGLETON, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; under the South Downs, 1¼ mile NNE of Portslade r. station, and 3¼ NW by W of Brighton. Post town, Portslade, under Shoreham. Acres, 1,318; of which £160 are water. Real property, £2, 638. Pop., 51. Houses, 7. The property is divided between two; and the greater part, with the manor, belongs to the Countess Delawarr. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £209. Patron, the Countess Delawarr. The church is early English, small, and in good condition.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

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Administration

  • County: Sussex
  • Civil Registration District: Steyning
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Lewes
  • Poor Law Union: Steyning
  • Hundred: Fishergate
  • Province: Canterbury