Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EDBURTON

EDBURTON, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the S. Downs, 3½ miles E of Steyning r. station. It includes the hamlet of Fnlking; and its post town is Steyning, under Hurstperpoint. Acres, 2, 651. Real property, £820. Pop., 300. Houses, 67. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £379. Patron, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury. The church has a carved pulpit of the time of James I., and a circular leaden Norman font; and is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Edburton CP/AP       Steyning RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Edburton

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