West Wittering, Sussex

Description
Wittering, West, a parish, with a village, in Sussex, on the coast, 3 miles from Chichester station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post and. money order office under Chichester; telegraph office, Chichester. Acreage, 2320 of land and 980 of water and foreshore; population, 582. Cakeham is the seat of the Gorham family. A palace of the Bishops of Chichester once stood here, and a lofty brick hexagonal tower connected with it, and built in the early part of the 16th century, still stands. There are two coastguard stations in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ohiches-ter; gross value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored. There is a Bible Christian chapel.