Description
Tortington, a parish in Sussex, near Ford station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 2 miles SSW of Arundel. Post town, Arundel. Acreage, 1116; population, 288. An Augustinian priory was founded here before the time of King John by Lady Alicia Corbet, was given at the Dissolution to Lord Maltravers, and is now represented by a portion of its refectory, used as a barn. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £110. Patron, the Duke of Norfolk. The church is a building of flint in the Norman style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
