Aldrington, Sussex, England

Aldrington as described in 'John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72': 'Aldrington or Atherington, a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the coast, near the South Coast railway, 3 miles W of Brighton. Post Town, Brighton. Acres, 776. Pop., 7. Houses, 2. A village here which antiquaries suppose to have been the Portus Adurni of the Romans, which some also suppose to have been given by King Alfred to his younger son, and which came to bear the same name. as the parish, was destroyed at no very late period, by encroachment of the sea. So much of the parish also was carried away that not an inhabitant was found in it at the Censuses of 1801-31. The ruins of the church, in early English architecture, still exist. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £294. Patron, Magdalene College, Cambridge."