South Bersted
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SOUTH BERSTED is a parish, in the hundred of Aldwick, rape and county court district of Chichester, Sutton incorporation, 6 miles south-east from Chichester, and one mile north from Bognor, containing 2,750 acres. The church of St. Mary Magdalen is a plain edifice, with a tower surmounted by a spire. The living is a vicarage, commuted tithe rent-charge £400 per annum, in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and held by the Rev. Edward Eedle, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford. There is a National School for boys. The soil is a rich loam. The population of this parish (which includes Bognor) in 1861 was 3,128. [Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1867.]
Churches
| Baptist Chapel, Bognor Regis, Baptist |
| Open Gate Baptist Church, Bognor Regis, Baptist |
| Bognor Regis Cemetery, Bognor Regis, |
| Chalcraft Cemetery, North Bersted, |
| Bognor Regis and District Hebrew Congregation, Bognor Regis, Jewish (Ashkenazi) |
| Bognor Regis Methodist Church, Bognor Regis, Methodist |
| Primitive Methodist Chapel, Bognor Regis, Methodist |
| Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bognor Regis, Methodist |
| Our Lady of Sorrows, Bognor Regis, Roman Catholic |
| Friends Meeting House, Bognor Regis, Quaker |
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