Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PLASTOW, or Plaistow

PLASTOW, or Plaistow, a chapelry in Kird ford parish, Sussex; near the boundary with Surrey, 6 miles S E of Witley r. station, and 6½ N by E of Petworth. Post-town, Kird ford, under Petworth. Pop., 276. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Kird ford, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is modern.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place names: PLAISTOW     |     PLASTOW     |     PLASTOW OR PLAISTOW
Place: Plaistow

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