Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALDINGBOURN

ALDINGBOURN, a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex; 1 mile north of Woodgate r. station, and 4 E of Chichester. It contains the hamlets of Lidsey and Westergate. Post Town, Chichester. Acres, 3,069. Real property, £6,678. Pop., 772. Houses, 162. Aldingbourn House was a seat of the Howards. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £220.* Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is early English, and has a black marble font.


(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: Aldingbourne CP/AP       Westhampnett RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Aldingbourne

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