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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Coates like this:
COATES, a parish in Chichester district, Sussex; on the river Rother, near the Mid Sussex railway, 2 miles SSE of Petworth. Post town, Petworth. Acres, 345. Real property, £680. Pop., 78. Houses, 15. The property belongs chiefly to one. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Burton, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is early English, and has a spire.
Coates is now part of CHICHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how CHICHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Coates itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coates, in Chichester and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8313
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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