Wiston Sussex Family History Guide

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Wiston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1638
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1570

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WISTON, a parish in Thakeham district, Sussex; 2 miles WNW of Steyning r. station. Post town, Steyning. Acres, 2,865. Real property, £2,777. Pop., 311. Houses, 57. W. Park is the seat of the Rev. J. Goring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £430. Patron, the Rev, J. Goring. The church is chiefly decorated English. There is a free school.

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: Thakeham
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the Archdeaconry of Chichester
  • Diocese: Chichester
  • Rural Deanery: Storrington
  • Poor Law Union: Thakeham
  • Hundred: Steyning
  • Province: Canterbury