Willingdon Sussex Family History Guide

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Willingdon is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Hampden Park and Polegate.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1560
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1593

Nonconformists include: Baptist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WILLINGDON, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Sussex. The village stands 1¾ mile SSE of Polegate r. station, and 2½ N by W of Eastbourne; and has a post-office under Hurst-Green. The parish extends to the coast; comprises 4,217 acres of land and 42 of water; and is in Eastbourne district. Real property, £5,742. Pop. in 1861, 709. Houses, 152. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is early English, and has a tower and spire. There are a parochial school and a reading room.

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: Eastbourne
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Lewes
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Pevensey
  • Poor Law Union: Eastbourne
  • Hundred: Willingdon
  • Province: Canterbury