TILLINGTON, a parish, with a village, in Midhurst district, Sussex; 3 miles NNW of Petworth r. station. It has a post-office, of the name of Tillington-Street, under Petworth. Acres, 3,766. Real property, £5,147. Pop., 908. Houses, 189. The manor belongs to Lord Leconfield. Pittshill is the seat of W. T. Mitford, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £740.* Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is partly decorated English. There are a national school, alms houses with £20 a year, and other charities £5.

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