POLING, a parish in the hundred of POLING, rape
of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (S. E.) from
Arundel, containing 191 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry .and diocese of
Chichester, rated in the king's books at £ 10, and in the
patronage of the Provost and .Fellows of Eton College,
on the nomination of the Bishop of Chichester. The
church is principally in the later style of English architecture.
John Tilly, in 1785, bequeathed a rent-charge
of £3 for teaching poor children. The knights of St.
John of Jerusalem had a preceptory here, which, at the
dissolution, was granted to the college of Arundel.