SLINDON, a village and a parish in Westhampnett district, Sussex. The village stands 3 miles NNE of Barnham-Junction r. station, and 3¼ W by N of Arundel; and has a post-office under Arundel. The parish includes the quondam extra-parochial tract of the Gumber, and comprises 2,504 acres. Real property, £3,135. Pop., 543. Houses, 124. The manor was given, by the Saxon king Ceadwalla, to the Archbishops of Canterbury; and passed to the Kempes. S. House was built, in the 13th century, by one of the Archbishops; was the death-place of Cardinal Langton; was rebuilt, in the time of Elizabeth, by Sir G. Kempe; passed through various hands, and underwent numerous alterations; and is now the seat of Col. Leslie. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £219.* Patron, Col. Leslie. The church was partly restored, partly rebuilt and extended, and got a new spire, in 1867. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.

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