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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hunston like this:
HUNSTON, a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex; on the Arundel and Portsmouth canal, near the South Coast railway, 2 miles S of Chichester. Posttown, Chichester. Acres, 1,003. Real property, £1,873. Pop., 176. Houses, 37. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged formerly to Boxgrove priory. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of North Mundham, in the diocese of Chichester. The church consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel; and is ancient but good.
Hunston is now part of CHICHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how CHICHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hunston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hunston, in Chichester and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/8686
Date accessed: 08th November 2025
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