In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Portslade By Sea like this:
PORTSLADE, a village and a parish in Steyning district, Sussex. The village stands on the South Coast railway, about a mile from the sea, and 4 W by N of Brighton; is a picturesque place; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post-office under Shoreham, and a police station. The parish extends to the coast, and comprises 1, 966 acres of land and 40 of water. ...
Real property, £5,003. Pop. in 1851, 733; in 1861, 1, 103. Houses, 186. The increase of pop. arose from the formation of a canal and a floating basin, in connexion with Shoreham harbour, for the convenience of the coal and timber trade of Brighton and its neighbourhood; and from the consequent erection of houses for seafaring men and their families. The property is subdivided. The Manor-House, Portslade House, and East Hill are chief residences, and command extensive views. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Hangleton, in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £171.* Patron, the Countess Delawarr. The church is early English, ingood condition. There are a chapel of ease and a national school.
Portslade by Sea through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Portslade by Sea, in Brighton and Hove and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/556
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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