Description
Ovingdean, a parish in Sussex, near the coast, 4 1/4 miles E by S of Brighton station on the L.B. & S.C.R. Post town,. Brighton; money order and telegraph office, Rottingdean. Acreage. 1630; population, 161. Charles II. is said to nave-lain concealed a short time at Ovingdean after the battle of Worcester, and prior to his departure from Shoreham to France. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £230 with residence. The church stands on a hillside; is partly Sason, partly Norman, and partly Early English; and consists of nave and chancel, with a porch and tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
