Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described East Preston like this:

PRESTON (East), a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; on the coast, ½ a mile S E of Angmering r. station, and 3 E of Littlehampton. Post-town, Little-hampton, under Arundel. Acres, 609; of which 120 are water. Real property, £1, 439. Pop., 320. Houses, 55. A workhouse for 19 parishes, constituting the East Preston poor-law union, is here; and, at the census of1861, had 82 inmates. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Ferring, in the diocese of Chichester. Charities, £14.

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