Description
Sompting, a rural parish, including the hamlet of Cokeham, in Sussex, 2 1/2 miles NNE of Worthing station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post and money order office under Worthing; telegraph office, Broadwater. Acreage, 2917; population, 700. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor of Sompting Abbots belonged once to Fecamp Abbey, and belongs now to the Crofts family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £210 with residence. The church is cruciform, is chiefly Norman and Early English, and has been restored. It has a Saxon tower with a spire of which no other specimen of like age is to be seen in England. A reading-room was erected in 1889.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
