Wilmington Sussex Family History Guide
Wilmington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1616
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WILMINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Eastbourne district, Sussex; 1 mile S of Berwick r. station, and 5½ NW of Eastbourne. It gives the title of Baron to the Marquis of Northampton; and it has a post-office under Hurst-Green. Acres, 1,744. Real property, £1,756. Pop., 250. Houses, 47. The property is not much divided. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Grestein Abbey in Normandy, was founded here, in the time of William Rufus, by the Earl of Mortaigne; and was given by Henry V. to Chichester cathedral. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £111. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church has Norman portions, and is good.
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: 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: Longbridge
- Province: Canterbury