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WESTBOURNE, a village, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Sussex. The village stands 1 mile N of Emsworth r. station, and 2¾ ENE of Havant; was once a trading town; and has a post-office under Emsworth. The parish includes five tythings; comprises 4,306 acres of land, and 785 of water: and contains W. workhouse. Real property, £10,914. Pop., 2,165. Houses, 467. Much of the land belongs to Lord Leconfield and Messrs. Hipkin and Wyatt. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £450.* Patron, J. Sperling, Esq. The church is good; and there is a national school.—The sub-district contains 4 parishes. Acres, 14,120. Pop., 3,726.—The district includes Funtington sub-district, and comprises 32,886 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £4,287. Pop. in 1851, 6,944: in 1861, 6,954. Houses, 1,427. Marriages in 1863, 53; births, 217,-of which 12 were illegitimate: deaths, 154,-of which 47 were at ages under 5 years, and 7 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 441: births, 1,986; deaths, 1,215. The places of worship, in 1851, were 14 of the Church of England, with 3,518 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 275 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 88 s.; and 1 of Bible Christians, with 90 s. The schools were 10 public day-schools, with 758 scholars: 7 private day-schools, with 193 s.; 8 Sunday schools, with 546 s.; and 3 evening schools for adults, with 36 s.-The hundred contains 12 parishes; bears the name of W. and Singleton; and is in Chichester rape. Acres, 32,019. Pop. in 1851, 5,722. Houses, 1,110.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Westbourne AP/CP Westbourne SubD Westbourne RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | SINGLETON | WESTBOURNE |
| Place: | Westbourne |
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