Description
Duncton, a parish in Sussex, 1 1/2 mile SSW of Petworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3 1/4 S by W of Petworth. It has a post office under Petworth; money order office, Petworth; telegraph office, Petworth railway station. Acreage, 1364; population, 259. Part of the land is common. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £195 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is small. Vestiges of a Roman bath were found in 1812. There is a Roman Catholic church.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
