Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AVISFORD

AVISFORD, a hundred in the rape of Arundel, Sussex. It contains the parish of Barnham, and eleven other parishes. Acres, 16,258. Pop. in 1851, 3,120. Houses, 563. Avisford House, the seat of the Houston family, is 4½ miles W of Arundel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place: Avisford

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