West Tarring Sussex Family History Guide

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West Tarring is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Durrington, West Worthing, Tarring, Salvington, and Heene.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

West Tarring

  • Parish registers: 1540
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1610

Durrington

  • Parish registers: 1626
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1683

Heene

  • Parish registers: 1594
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1610

Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

TARRING (West), a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; on the coast, 1 mile W of Worthing r. station. It contains Tarring village and Salvington hamlet; forms a hundred in Bramber rape; and has a post-office under Worthing. Acres, 1,226. Real property, £3,717. Pop., 606. Houses, 131. The manor was given by Athelstan to Christchurch, Canterbury. The living is a vicarage, with Heene and Durrington, in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £474. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is good, and has a lofty spire. Selden was a native of Salvington.

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 Peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Exempt Deaneries of Pagham and Tarring
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Tarring
  • Poor Law Union: East Preston
  • Hundred: Tarring
  • Province: Canterbury