LITTLINGTON, a parish in Eastbourne district, Sussex; on the river Cuckmere, 3 miles S of Berwick r. station, and 5 WNW of Eastbourne. It has a post office under Lewes. Acres, 893. Real property, £856. Pop. in 1851,105; in 1861,134. Houses, 27. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £105.* Patrons, the Trustees of the late Rev. T. Scutt. The church is good.

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