Description
Findon, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near Cissbury Hill, 4 miles NNW of Worthing station on the L.B. & S.O.R., and 4 WSW of Steyning, is a pleasant place with fine environs, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Worthing, and two annual fairs. The parish comprises 4370 acres; population, 775. Findon Place belonged formerly to the Westwoods. The parish is a resort for sportsmen. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £20. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church has Early English portions, contains two stone seats with intermediate door, and is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
