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Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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of the parish. The northern boundaryis formed by the ancient high road running from*Chichester, through Arundel—two miles to the west—to Broadwater, Brighton, Lewes, etc., on the east.There is a narrow belt of woodland bordering thishigh road, and answering to the much more extensivewoods of the Arundel domain on the other side : andhereabouts bricks and tiles have probably been madealmost continuously from Roman times. PolingStreet runs north and south from the high road, till itjoins a narrow road going east and west, and thevillage is dotted about the junction of these two roads.This east to west road is practically impassable inwinter though it leads directly to Lyminster, and mustanciently have been of some importance : and on theeastern side it dwindles to little more than a farmtrack on its way to Angmering. Besides these, thereis another uncertain track or causeway over the marsh,which crosses the rife on its way to the veryancient and picturesque hamlet of Toddington, and
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70 POLING AND THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS. finally conducts to Littlehampton : but a stranger ;trying to find his way from that pleasant sea-sideresort to coy and retiring Poling, will, in nine casesout of ten, get bogged, or find himself cut off by the rife. The remoteness of Poling is still a fact to bereckoned with, and the narrowness of its principalroads does not—perhaps fortunately—invite theubiquitous motorist. Poling does not occur in the Domesday Book underthat name, but was probably included in Lolin-minstre, in the hundred of Rieberge or Risberge,where there was a church and a water-mill. It may be added that the present population issomewhere about 200, and that for a century, at least,it has been the same, more or less : but possibly whenthe Knights Hospitallers settled in the parish, anddown to the middle of the 16th Century, it was actuallygreater than to-day. The general aspect of the countryhere and in the immediate neighbourhood can havealtered hardly at all since t

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