Description
Preston, East, a parish in Sussex, on the coast, half a mile SE of Angmering station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 3 miles E of Littlehampton. Post town, Worthing; money order and telegraph office, Angmering station. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 686. A workhouse for nineteen parishes, constituting the East Preston Poor-law Union, is in this parish. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarages of Ferring and Kingston, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £245 with lesidence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is a stone building in the Early English style, with an ancient stone spire. There is a coastguard station.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
