Description
Racton, a parish in Sussex, 2 3/4 miles NNE of Emsworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 6 1/2 WNW of Chichester. It includes the chapelry of Lordington, and its post town is Emsworth; money order and telegraph office, Westbourne. Acreage, 1199 ; population of the civil parish, 100; of the ecclesiastical, 52. Lordington House is the chief residence. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Lordington, in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £130;. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is Early English, and contains a fine monument to one of the Counters, an ancestor of Col. Counter who aided Charlea II. in his escape.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
