Description
Aldingbourne, a parish in Sussex, 2 1/2 miles from Barnham station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 E of Chichester, under which it has a post and money order office; the telegraph office is Barnham Junction. Acreage, 3098; population, 798. It contains the hamlets of Norton-Lidsey and Westergate. Aldingbourne House was a seat of the Howards. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £225. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. There was a Saxon church, and there are traces of Saxon work in the walls. The present church was built in 1180, and restored in 1889. The chancel is Early English. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Westergate.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
