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Climping

Village and parish in West Sussex, England

Field	Value
official_name	Climping (Clymping)
country	England
civil_parish	Climping
region	South East England
static_image_name	Climping Beach, Climping, West Sussex.JPG
static_image_caption	Climping beach at sunset
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	6.35
population	771
population_ref	(Civil Parish 2011)
os_grid_reference	TQ0002
coordinates
post_town	LITTLEHAMPTON
postcode_area	BN
postcode_district	BN17
dial_code	01903
constituency_westminster	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
london_distance	52 mi NNE
shire_district	Arun
shire_county	West Sussex
website	http://www.clymping.org.uk/

Climping (also spelt as Clymping) is a village and civil parish containing agricultural and natural sandy land in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is three miles (5 km) west of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road.

Amenities

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.

Climping village hall was designed in 1930s by architect Herbert Collins.

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 in London. 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 medieval).

Sport and leisure

Clymping Cricket Club play at the playing field behind the village hall. The club's First XI play in the West Sussex Invitational Cricket League, Division 3, and the Second XI play in Division 10 (West). The club has over 35 registered players.

As of the 2017–18 season, Climping will no longer have a football club, as the club has moved to Littlehampton.

References

"2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish". West Sussex County Council.
[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density] {{Webarchive. link. (11 February 2003 [[United Kingdom Census 2011]] ''[[Office for National Statistics]]'' Retrieved 21 November 2013)
Herbert Collins 1885-1975 Architect and Worker for Peace by Robert Williams published 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).
(1973). "A History of the County of Sussex". British History Online.

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