Climping, Sussex

Historical Description

Climping, a parish in Sussex, at the mouth of the river Arun, 1 mile from Ford station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 miles SSW of Arundel. It has a post office under Little-hampton; money order and telegraph office, Littlehampton. Acreage, 2010 of land and 413 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 251. Lands here were held under Roger de Montgomery by the Norman abbey of Almenesches and St Martin at Seez. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £222. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Early English, with circular windows above lancets, and has a Norman tower. It was restored in 1875. 27*

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Climping from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Climping)

Maps

Online maps of Climping are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer