Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tarring, West

Tarring, West, par., Sussex, on the coast, 1½ mile NW. of Worthing, 1191 ac., pop. 733; P.O.; is famous for its fig orchards; the archbishops of Canterbury long had a palace here; the par. forms the hundred of Tarring.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: West Tarring CP/AP       Sussex AncC
Place names: TARRING     |     TARRING WEST     |     WEST TARRING
Place: West Tarring

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