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Racton
Rachetone: Ivo from Earl Roger.
Cottages, church.
Ratton
Radetone / Radintone / Ratendone: Wibert, Reinbert and Eustace the cleric from Count of Eu; Jocelyn, Ralph, Morin, Hugh and Azelin from Count of Mortain. Mill, salthouse.
Part of Eastbourne; Ratton Farm, an 18th century manor house; and 15th century gatehouse.
Ripe
Ripe: Count of Eu and Alwin, his man, Reinbert, and Walter FitzLambert from him; Count of Mortain, formerly Earl Harold. 8 salthouses.
15th century manor house.
Rodmell
Ramelle / Redmelle: William de Warenne, formerly Earl Harold. 11 salthouses, church. 4000 herrings.
South of marshy brooks; Norman church; Remains of Rodmell Place.
Rotherfield
Reredfelle: King's land. Park.
Large; manor house.
Rottingdean
Rotingedene: Hugh from William de Warenne.
Many seaside villas. Sir Edward Burne-Jones lived at North End House.
Rumboldswhyke
Wiche: Hugh from Earl Roger.
Suburb of Chichester.
Runcton
Rochintone: Troarn Abbey from Earl Roger. 2 mills, fishery.

Saddlescombe
Salescome: Ralph from William de Warenne. Salt.
Early 16th century manor house.
Sakeham
Sacheham: William from William de Braose.
Sakeham Farm; isolated.
Salehurst
Salhert: Reinbert from Count of Eu. Church.
Late 13th century church.
Sedlescombe
Sales / Selescome: Walter FitzLambert from Count of Eu. Small church.
Pretty; mainly 15th century church.
Selham
Seleham: Robert from Earl Roger. Mill (100 eels).
Isolated manor farm.
Selmeston
S(i)elemestone: Reinbert from Count of Eu, William from Count of Mortain. Church.
14th century church rebuilt in 1867.
Selsey
Seleisie: Bishop of Chichester and Geoffrey and William from him.
Holiday resort, once an important saxon town.
Sessingham
Sasingeham / Sesingeham: Count of Eu; Gerald from Count of Mortain. Mill (500 eels).
Sessingham Farm; isolated.
Sheffield
Sifelle: Count of Mortain. Mill (500 eels).
Now Sheffield Park, originally Tudor and Gothicized by James Wyatt in the 18th century; grounds laid out by Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton.
Shermanbury
Salmonesberi: Ralph from William de Braose. Small church.
On the road; medieval church adjoining Shermanbury Place in parkland.
Sherrington
Eserintone / Serin- / Sirintone: Count of Eu and Walter from him; William and Heming, the pre-Conquest holder, from Count of Mortain.
Sherrington Manor House.
Shipley
Sepelei: William de Braose.
Many farms.
Shoreham
Sore(s)ham: William de Braose. Church.
Now the district of Old Shoreham, and Shoreham-by-the-Sea, a port. The Saxon church at Old Shoreham and New Shoreham's early Norman church were bequeathed to the abbey of Saumur.
Shovelstrode
Calvrestot / Celrestuis: Ansfrid from Count of Mortain.
Shovelstrode Manor; Shovelstrode Farm.
Sidlesham
Filleicham: Bishop of Chichester and Gilbert, Rozelin and Ulf from him.
Many glasshouses.
Singleton
Silletone: Earl Roger and Payne, Geoffrey, William and a monk of St. Evroul's from him. 3 mills, church.
Wooded; church with a Saxon tower.
Slindon
Eslindone: Hugh from Earl Roger. Church.
Church with an 11th century nave.
Somerley
Summerlege: Reginald from Earl Roger.

Sompting
S(t)ultinges: Ralph, another Ralph and Robert from William de Braose. Church, mill, 9 salthouses.
On the edge of seaside suburbia; Saxon church tower with Britain's only gabled pyramidal cap.
Southease
Suesse: Winchester Abbey. Church. 38,500 herrings, porpoises.
Compact; above the Ouse marshes; Saxon church.
South Heighton
Estone / Hectone: William from Count of Mortain.
Suburb of Newhaven; manor house.
South Malling
Mellinges: Archbishop of Canterbury. 5 mills (2000 eels).
Large; new housing; 11th century walling, part of the archbishop's manor house, remains.
South Stoke
Stoches: Arnold from Earl Roger. Church.
Norman church.
Standen
Standene: Count of Mortain.
Standen House.
Stanmer
Stanmere: Canons of Malling from Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mansion.
Stedham
Stedeham: Robert from Earl Roger. Church, 3 mills, quarry.
Victorian church; sand-pit nearby.
Steyning
Staninges: Fecamp church; William de Braose. 2 churches, 5 mills, 3 salthouses.
Little town with a Norman church and 15th century buildings.
Stopham
Stopeham: Robert from Earl Roger. 3 fisheries.
16th century manor house.
Storrington
Estorchetone / Storgetune: Robert from Earl Roger. Church, 3 mills.
Small town with a partly 11th century church.
Stoughton
Estone: Earl Roger. Church.
Norman church dating from just after the Conquest; Neolithic long barrows and flint mines on the Downs.
Streat
Estrat: Ralph from William de Warenne. 2 small churches.
12th century church.
Strettington
Stratone: William, Augustine and Arnold from Earl Roger.

Sullington
Semlintun / Sillintone: Robert from Earl Roger; William de Braose. Mill.
Isolated.
Sutton
Sudtone: Robert from Earl Roger. 3 mills.
11th century church.

Tangmere
Tangemere: Archbishop of Canterbury. Church.
Old RAF station; 12th century church with Saxon carved fragment.
Tarring Neville
Toringes: Count of Mortain.

Thakeham
Taceham: Morin from William de Braose. Church, mill.
Partly Norman church.
Tillington
Tolintone: Robert from Earl Roger. Mill (120 eels).
Adjoining Petworth Park; Jacobean manor house.
Tilton
Telentone / Tilitone: Count of Eu, formerly Earl Harold; William of Keynes and Osbern from Count of Mortain.
Tilton Farm; cottages.
Toddington
Totintone: Robert from Earl Roger.
Built up.
Todham
Tadeham: William from Earl Roger. Mill.
Great Todham Farm.
Tortington
Tortinton: Ernucion from Earl Roger. Park.
Wooded common; remains of pre-1180 Augustinian priory.
Tottington
Totintune: William de Braose and William from him.
Cluster of houses.
Treyford
Treverde: Robert FitzTheobald from Earl Roger and Bishop of Chichester. Mill.
Scattered; late 17th century manor house.
Trotton
Traitone: Earl Roger. Church, mill.
13th century church; its brasses include one of Lady Camoys (d.1310), the earliest existing female brass.
Truleigh
Trailgi: William, a man-at-arms from William de Braose. 2 mills.
Truleigh Manor Farm.

Uckham
Bocheham: Battle Abbey.
Now Uckham Lane Gardens.
Udimore
Dodimere: Reinbert from Count of Eu. Church.
Quiet; church with a Norman nave. Edward I and Edward III stayed at Court Lodge when it belonged to the Echynghams.
Upper Beeding
Bed(d)inges: Hugh from William de Warenne; William de Braose. 2 churches.
Residential; church, c.1300, belonging to a Benedictine priory founded by William de Braose in 1075.
Up Waltham
Waltham: Earl Roger and Arnold, Troarn Abbey and Geoffrey from him. Park.
Downland; encircled by woodland; barrows on Waltham Down.

Walberton
Walburgetone: William from Earl Roger; Roland and Acard the priest. Church, park.
Church, probably of Saxon origin, but badly restored in 1903.
Waldron
Waldere / Waldrene: Osben from Count of Eu; Ansfrid from Count of Mortain.

Wannock
Walnoch: William from Count of Mortain.
Housing estates.
Wantley
Wantelei: William FitzRanulf from William de Braose.
Wantley Hill Estate and Wantley Manor Farm.
Wappingthorn
Wapingetorne: William FitzMann from William de Braose. Salt.
Manor house, 1609.
Warbleton
Warborgetone: Wibert from Count of Eu.
Quiet.
Warningcamp
Garnecampo / Warnecham: Nigel from Earl Roger. 2 fisheries.
Facing Arundel across the river.
Warningore
Venningore / Waningore: Hugh from William de Warenne.
Warningore House; Warningore Farm.
Wartling
Werlinges: William from Count of Eu. 3 salthouses.
On highish ground overlooking Pevensey Levels.
Wellhead
Waliland: 5 men from Count of Eu.
Part of Wellhead Wood.
Wepham
Wepeham: Picot from Earl Roger. Mill, 2 fisheries.
Adjoining Burpham. Wepham Wood nearby.
Westbourne
Borne / Burne: Earl Roger. 4 mills, fishery.
Large; former small market town on the Hampshire border.
Westburton
Westbortone:
Lost.
West Chiltington
Cilletone / tune: Robert from Earl Roger; Ralph from William de Braose. Church.
11th century church; pleasant cottages.
West Dean
Dene: Osbern and Ralph from Count of Mortain. 4 salthouses.
Secluded. King Alfred had a palace here, probably on the site of the manor house, now in ruins.
Westfield
Westewelle: Wibert from Count of Eu.
Large.
West Firle
Ferla / Ferle: Count of Eu and Osbern, Walter and the monks of Treport from him; Count of Mortain and the clergy of St. Pancras, Lewes, Jocelyn, William, Gilbert and the Castle Wardens from him. 3 mills.
Iron Age and Roman settlements; Neolithic long barrow.
Westhampnett
Hentone: William from Earl Roger. Mill, church.
On Roman Stane Street; 14th century church.
West Itchenor
Icenore: Warin from Earl Roger.
Fishing; on Chichester harbour.
Westmeston
Westmestun: Robert from William de Warenne.
Middleton Manor House.
West Tarring
Terringes: Archbishop of Canterbury; William de Braose. 2 churches.
Part of Worthing; some old buildings. Thomas à Becket is said to have introduced the fig into his garden here.
West Thorney
Tornei: Mauger from Bishop Osbern of Exeter.
On an island in Chichester harbour.
Whatlington
Watlingetone: Reinbert from Count of Eu, formerly Earl Harold.

Whalesbeach
Waslebie:
Lost.
Wickham
Wicham: William de Watteville's wife from William de Warenne and Alwin from her.
Now Hurst Wickham, a built-up adjunct of Hurstpierpoint.
Willingdon
Wilendone / Wille(n)done: Count of Eu and Reinbert, Osbern FitzGeoffrey, and Hugh from him; Count of Mortain and Osbern, William, Jocelyn, Gilbert, Alwin, Ansgot, Godfrey the priest and Ansfrid from him. 11 salthouses.
Suburb of Eastbourne.
Wilmington
Wilminte / Wineltone: Abbots of Battle and Grestain from Count of Mortain.
Long barrows and flint mines nearby.
Wilting
Wiltingham / Witinges: Ingelrann from Count of Eu; the Abbot of Battle from Ingelrann. Park.
Lower and Upper Wilting Farms.
Winterbourne
Wintreburne: Aldith from William de Warenne.
Lost in Kingston village.
Winton
Wigentone: Reinbert from Count of Eu.

Wiston
Wistanestun: Ralph from William de Braose. Church.
Under the Downs; 11th century church.
Wittering
Westringes: Bishop of Chichester and Ralph and Herbert from him; Robert from Earl Roger and Ralph from him. Mill.
Now East Wittering, a coastal resort with bungalows and holiday chalets, and West Wittering village with an 11th century church.
Woodmancote
Odemanscote: William FitzRanulf from William de Braose. Church.
Church, largely rebuilt in 1868.
Woolbeding
Welbedlinge: Odo of Winchester from the king. Mill, church.
Pretty; on the River Rother; Saxon church.
Woolfly
Ovelie: Ralph from William de Braose.
Woolfly Wood.
Wootton (in East Chiltington)
Odetone / Odintune: Archbishop of Canterbury; Nigel from William de Warenne. Mill.
Wootton Farm, probably the ancient manor house.
Wootton (in Folkington)
Lodintone / Lodiutone: Count of Mortain. Mill, 5 salthouses.
Wootton Manor, a Jacobean house.
Worth (near Little Horsted)
Gorde: Ralph from Count of Mortain. Mill.
Worth Farm.
Worthing
Mordinges / Ordinges: Robert and Ralph from William de Braose.
Seaside resort, a fishing hamlet until the 19th century.