Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BURTON, or Bodexton

BURTON, or Bodexton, a parish in Chichester district, Sussex; on the river Rother and the Arundel canal, near the Mid-Sussex railway, 3 miles SSW of Petworth. Post Town, Petworth. Acres, 809. Real property, £597. Pop., 45. Houses, 9. Burton Park is the seat of the Biddulphs. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Coates, in the diocese of Chichester. Value £113. Patron, George Wyndham, Esq.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Burton CP/AP       Sussex AncC
Place names: BODEXTON     |     BURTON     |     BURTON OR BODEXTON
Place: Burton

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