Place:


Coombes  Sussex

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Coombes like this:

COOMBS, or Coombe, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the river Adur, and on the Steyning and Henfield railway, 1½ mile S by E of Bramber station, and 2¼ SSE of Steyning. Post town, Steynmg, under Hurstper point. Acres, 1, 292. Real property, £930. Pop., 77. Houses, 11. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £201. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is early English and tolerable.

Coombes through time

Coombes is now part of Adur district. Click here for graphs and data of how Adur has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Coombes itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Coombes, in Adur and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8317

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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