East Preston, West Sussex

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East Preston
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East Preston
Location within West Sussex
Area2.00 km2 (0.77 sq mi)  [1]
Population5,938 (Civil Parish 2011) [2]
  Density 2,969/km2 (7,690/sq mi)
OS grid reference TQ070023
  London 50 miles (80 km) NNE
Civil parish
  • East Preston
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LITTLEHAMPTON
Postcode district BN16
Dialling code 01903
Police Sussex
Fire West Sussex
Ambulance South East Coast
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50°48′37″N0°28′55″W / 50.81041°N 0.48189°W / 50.81041; -0.48189

East Preston is a coastal village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies roughly halfway between Littlehampton and Worthing.

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East Preston comprises the following residential areas, from east to west: Kingston Gorse, West Kingston, Angmering-on-Sea, [3] East Preston Village and The Willowhayne.

Village school

The original village school building nowadays houses an estate agent firm. It was built in 1840 and started as a Sunday School funded by George Olliver. He received a reward for reporting a farm labourer (Edmund Bushby) for igniting a hayrick for moving the hay about efficiently. The labourer burned the hayrick in protest against farm machinery replacing manual labour. Bushby was subsequently hanged. Over time the building was enlarged into the village school until it was given to Sussex County Council in 1940. There were four classrooms, one very large room, having a curtain divided it into two. There were two separate playgrounds. This building remained as the village school until 1951 when the new school in Lashmar Road was opened. [4]

Amenities

East Preston and Kingston Village Hall on Sea Road were converted from old barns left to the community by the Warren family of Preston Hall. [5]

East Preston Festival

East Preston Festival started in 1981 and runs each year for ten days at the end of May / beginning of June, with all event proceeds divided between donations to local community groups and good causes, and the funding of subsequent Festivals.

In 2017, the Festival won the A Celebration of Sussex Life, Festival of the Year Award.

The Festival was unable to run in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but a 3-day ‘Mini Festival Weekend’ went ahead successfully in 2021.

Sport and leisure

East Preston has a Non-League football club East Preston F.C. which plays at The Lashmar, Lashmar Road. [6]

Notable people

A county dignitary resident in the parish was Charles Boughton-Leigh. [7]

Other notable residents include:

See also

References

  1. "2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish" (PDF). West Sussex County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
  2. Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density Archived 11 February 2003 at the Wayback Machine United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013
  3. "Google Maps". Google Maps.
  4. Griffin, Carl J. (Carl James) (2012). The rural war : Captain Swing and the politics of protest. Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan. p. 251. ISBN   978-0-7190-8626-7 . Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  5. "History". East Preston & Kingston Village Hall.
  6. www.eastprestonfc.com Archived 2013-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "C.B.T. Boughton-Leigh Esq MBE obituary".
  8. 1 2 "Zangwill, Israel & Edith". UCL Archive. UCL Library Services. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  9. Sir Maurice Craig; The Times (London, England), Monday, Jan 07, 1935; pg. 19; Issue 46955. Category: Obituaries
  10. Bennett, Maxwell: Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry (Springer Press 2013) ISBN   9400757476 p.9
  11. Warren, Alan (2011). Burma 1942: The Road from Rangoon to Mandalay. A&C Black. p. 127.
  12. "Medals belonging to Brigadier N. Hugh-Jones, Indian Army, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers". DNW Auctions. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

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