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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Edburton like this:
EDBURTON, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the S. Downs, 3½ miles E of Steyning r. station. It includes the hamlet of Fnlking; and its post town is Steyning, under Hurstperpoint. Acres, 2, 651. Real property, £820. Pop., 300. Houses, 67. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £379. Patron, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury. The church has a carved pulpit of the time of James I., and a circular leaden Norman font; and is good.
Edburton is now part of MID SUSSEX District. Click here for graphs and data of how MID SUSSEX has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Edburton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Edburton, in Mid Sussex and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8338
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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