Climping
| Climping | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 Climping beach at sunset | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ015030 |
| Location: | 50°49’7"N, -0°33’35"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 771 (2011) |
| Post town: | Littlehampton |
| Postcode: | BN17 |
| Dialling code: | 01903 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Arun |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton |
| Website: | clymping.org.uk |
Climping (also spelled Clymping) is a village in Sussex, three miles west of the centre of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. The village itself is less than a mile inland of the sea, on the west side of the tidal River Arun, where the east bank is occupied by the townscape of Littlehampton. A lane and footpaths lead down to the coast at Atherington and the English Channel.
This is an agricultural parish, on natural sandy land, in the south of the county.
Parish church
The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, dates from 1080, and is teamed with those of Yapton and Ford under one vicar. There is a canonical sundial, dating from the 12th century, on the south wall.
About the village
Climping village hall was designed in 1930s by architect Herbert Collins[1]
Fringing the coast towards the River Arun and Littlehampton are the Climping sand dunes, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which includes areas of rare vegetated shingle.
A windmill here predates the mid-18th century and survives, unused for wind power, bereft of its sails but kept up and lived in.
Atherington
Some time after 1102 Séez Abbey in Normandy established a cell or grange at Atherington for a monk to act as bailiff of the abbey's lands near Littlehampton. The bailiff was occasionally referred to as a prior and the grange as Atherington Priory. At the suppression of alien houses in around 1415 by Henry V]] the confiscated monastic properties of Atherington were given to Syon Abbey. The site, also known as Bailiffscourt, retains the 13th-century chapel, now used as a sanctuary for the ashes of the Moynes family. There are also still traces of a moat. (The other buildings on the site are not genuinely mediæval).[2][3]
Sport and leisure
Cricket: Clymping Cricket Club, who play at the playing field behind the village hall
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Climping) |
- Climping: Victoria County History of Sussex
References
- ↑ Williams, Robert: 'Herbert Collins 1885-1975; Architect and Worker for Peace' (Paul Cave Publications Ltd. in conjunction with The City of Southampton Society, 1985) ISBN 0-86146-049-9
- ↑ "Historic England Research Records Monument Number 392811". https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=392811&resourceID=19191.
- ↑ A History of the County of Sussex - Volume 2 p : Alien houses: Ballivate of Atherington (Victoria County History)