Description
Woolavington, a parish in Sussex, 4 miles from Petworth station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post office, of the name of Lavington, under Petworth; money order and telegraph office, Petworth. Acreage, 2390; population, 405. Lavington House belongs to the Wilberforce family. The living, united ecclesiastically to Graffham, is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £105. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and contains some brasses to the Wilberforce and other families.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
