Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TANGMERE

TANGMERE, a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex; 1½ mile N of Drayton r. station, and 3 ENE of Chichester. Post town, Chichester. Acres, 774. Real property, £1,612. Pop., 201. Houses, 47. Most of the land belongs to the Duke of Richmond. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £282.* Patron, the Duke of Richmond. The church is mainly early English.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Tangmere AP/CP       Westhampnett RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Tangmere

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