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Lyminster

Village in West Sussex, England

Summary

Village in West Sussex, England

Field	Value
official_name	Lyminster
static_image_name	Lyminster StMaryMagdalene NE.jpg
static_image_caption	St Mary Magdalene parish church
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	5.87
population	369
population_ref	(2011 Census)
population_density	60 /km2
os_grid_reference	TQ025047
coordinates
label_position	bottom
civil_parish	Lyminster and Crossbush
shire_district	Arun
shire_county	West Sussex
region	South East England
country	England
post_town	Littlehampton
postcode_area	BN
postcode_district	BN17
dial_code	01903
constituency_westminster	Arundel and South Downs
london_distance	50 mi NNE
website	Lyminster and Crossbush Parish Council

Lyminster is a village that is the main settlement of Lyminster and Crossbush civil parish, in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It borders, to the south, Littlehampton, which has its town centre 2 mi away.

Landmarks

Church

The Church of England parish church of St Mary Magdalene is an 11th-century Saxon building and a Grade I listed building, the highest grading in the national system. ;Bells The church has a ring of six bells. Lester and Pack of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble, second and fourth bells in 1759. John Warner and Sons of Cripplegate, London cast the third and fifth bells in 1887, the year of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1950.

History

According to the Hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript the village is the burial place of Saint Cuthflæd of Lyminster.

Folklore

Just to the north of the village is a knuckerhole which, according to folklore, was home to a dragon, the Knucker.The church contains a tombstone called the Slayer's Slab, supposed to be from the tomb of the dragonslayer.

References

"2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish". West Sussex County Council.
"Area: Lyminster and Crossbush (Parish); Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". [[Office for National Statistics]].
{{NHLE. (12 October 1954)
Rix, Geoff. (6 July 2012). "Lyminster S Mary Magd". [[Central Council of Church Bell Ringers]].
link. (2014-01-03 , British Library)
The [[Oxford Dictionary of Saints]], [[Oxford University Press]].
(22 May 2016). "Knucker". McFarland.

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