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Kingston by Ferring

Civil parish in West Sussex, England

Summary

Civil parish in West Sussex, England

Field	Value
official_name	Kingston
country	England
civil_parish	Kingston
region	South East England
static_image_name	West Kingston Beach - geograph.org.uk - 892847.jpg
static_image_caption	West Kingston Beach
area_footnotes
population	625
area_total_km2	1.72
population_ref	(Civil Parish.2011)
os_grid_reference	TQ085016
coordinates
post_town	LITTLEHAMPTON
postcode_area	BN
postcode_district	BN16
dial_code	01903
constituency_westminster	Worthing West
london_distance	50 mi NNE
shire_district	Arun
shire_county	West Sussex

Kingston or Kingston by Ferring, is a small civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is a combination of a farmed rural interior and the three neighbourhoods of East Kingston, West Kingston and Kingston Gorse. The parish lies on the coast, between Ferring and East Preston parishes.

Geography and economy

Kingston is three miles (5 km) to the west of Worthing and among the most sparsely populated areas in the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation; there is road access from East Preston and Angmering-on-Sea but not from Ferring to the east. A generally pedestrianised seafront connects the parish to Littlehampton and to Worthing.

The original village centre including the parish church was lost to the sea around 1630 and remains have been found well below the present highwater line.

Localities

Kingston Gorse is a seaside neighbourhood south of East Kingston farm, centred 3.4 miles (5.6 km) east of Littlehampton.

Crime

Kingston has been devoid of major crime reported widely since at least the early 19th century, save that a cornfield in the parish is where murder victim Sarah Payne was playing with her siblings when abducted on 1 July 2000. Her body was found 15 mi away at Pulborough two weeks later. Littlehampton resident Roy Whiting, a convicted child sex offender, was later sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.

References

"2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish". West Sussex County Council.
[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density] [[United Kingdom Census 2011]] ''[[Office for National Statistics]]'' Retrieved 10 May 2014
[http://www.sussexchurches.co.uk/arundel_kingston-by-ferring.htm Sussex Churches historical records]
[http://www.sussexhistory.com/kingston_chapel.htm Sussex History; what is known of the chapel's fate]
(2001-12-12). "Snatched on a summer's evening".

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