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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LAVANT (EAST), a village and a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex. The village stands near the Lavant rivulet, near Goodwood Park, and adjacent to the Chichester and Haslemere railway, 2 miles N of Chichester; and is a pleasant place.—The parish includes also West Lavant tything; and its post town is Mid-Lavant, under Chichester. Acres, 2, 884. Real property, £3, 182. Pop., 421. Houses, 87. The manor was known at Domesday as Loventone, and belonged to the Bishop of Exeter; it passed at some time to the Archbishops of Canterbury, and at a subsequent time to the Crown; it was given, in 1560, by Queen Elizabeth, to Sir Richard Baker; and it went, by sale, in 1775, to the third Duke of Richmond. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £410.* Patron, Lord Willoughby de Broke. The church is Norman, in good condition. There is a national school; and there is also a share in the free school and alms houses of Boxgrove.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | East Lavant CP/AP Lavant CP Westhampnett RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | EAST LAVANT | LAVANT | LAVANT EAST | LOVENTONE |
| Place: | Lavant |
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