Rustington Sussex Family History Guide

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Rustington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1568
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1593

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Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RUSTINGTON, a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; on the coast, 1 mile SW of Angmering r. station, and 1¼ E of Little Hampton. Post-town, Little Hampton, under Arundel. Acres, 1,287; of which 222 are water. Real property, £3,254. Pop., 340. Houses, 75. The manor belongs to W. G. K. Gratwicke, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, 159. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is early English, and was recently restored. A national school was built in 1860.

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

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Sussex
  • Civil Registration District: Worthing
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Arundel
  • Poor Law Union: East Preston
  • Hundred: Poling
  • Province: Canterbury