KINGSTON-BY-SEA, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the South Coast railway, and at the mouth of Shoreham harbour, 1 mile E of Shoreham. It has a station on the railway, and a wharf on the harbour; and its post town is Shoreham. Acres, 799. Real property, £2, 168. Pop., 93. Houses, 16. The manor, with Kingston House, belongs to W. P. Gorringe, Esq. Two corn warehouses, large malting houses, railway coke ovens, a ship building yard, bonding warehouses, ponds and quays are here; and a large traffic goes on between the railway station and the harbour. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, 280.* Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is of the 13th century, but has been completely renovated.

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