A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PRESTON, a village, a parish, and a hundred, in Sussex. The village stands adjacent to the London and Brighton railway, in a fine valley, 1¼ mile N N W of Brighton r. station; and has a post-office under Brighton. The parish comprises 1, 286 acres; contains the Brightoncavalry barracks and the Brighton waterworks; and is in Steyning district. Real property, £4, 198. Pop. in 1851, 906; in 1861, 1,044. Houses, 111. The property is divided among a few. There are several neatvillas. A new village, suburban to Brighton, and to becalled Prestonville, was in course of erection in 1868. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Hove, in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £306.* Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is early English, and stands on the hill-side. There are an Independent chapel and a national school. The hundredcontains also Hove parish, comprises 2, 158 acres, and is in the rape of Lewes. Pop., 10, 668. Houses, 1, 367.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Preston CP/AP Preston Hundred Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Preston |
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