Hunston is a village and

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in the

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, England. It lies on the B2145 Road two miles (3.2 km) south of

History

Hunston was listed in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086 in the Hundred of Stockbridge as having 24 households, one mill, one pound and two salthouses, with a value of 4 pounds.

Notable people

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(1808-1879), first class

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who died at Hunston Mill in 1879. Ellis Brown (1939-1997),

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and

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IM lived in Hunston from 1945 to 1962.

References

External links

Hunston Parish Council
Villages in West Sussex {{WestSussex-geo-stub