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Poling, West Sussex

Village and parish in West Sussex, England

Field	Value
official_name	Poling
static_image_name	Poling St Nicholas Church.jpg
static_image_caption	St. Nicholas' parish church
label_position	left
population	174
area_total_km2	3.2
population_ref	(Civil Parish)
os_grid_reference	TQ046047
coordinates
london_distance	49 mi NNE
civil_parish	Poling
shire_district	Arun
shire_county	West Sussex
region	South East England
country	England
constituency_westminster	Arundel and South Downs
post_town	Arundel
postcode_area	BN
postcode_district	BN18
dial_code	01903

Poling is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, 2 mi southeast of Arundel on a minor road south of the A27. About 25% of the parish is wooded foothill slopes of the South Downs which is the area north of the A27 here.

The 2001 Census recorded 173 people lived in 75 households, of whom 96 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population had risen only marginally to 174.

The small village has two Grade I Listed buildings: the Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas, (in whose churchyard the cricketer Colin Cowdrey is buried), and part of St John's Priory (founded by the Knights Hospitallers circa 1140) beside the main road. Many of the cottages are Grade II listed.

History

Poling was an agricultural part of the Rape of Arundel, one of the traditional sub-divisions of Sussex and a former Norman barony.

In the Anglo-Saxon era Poling, like most coastal villages, had outlying areas of land in the Weald (forest) within Sussex used for summer grazing and timber production. Thus Poling gave its name to Pallingham north of Stopham and Pallinghurst west of Rudgwick. Poling also had land north of Petworth, then known as "Palinga Schittas", mentioned in a charter of AD 953. in connection with the pannage of pigs to feed on acorns.

Royal Air Force Station, Poling

RAF Poling was in use until July 1956. Thereafter, the cost of guarding the site was about £5,000, mostly before the technical equipment was removed in March 1957 when the guard was downsized; in February 1955, the wire fence was renewed for £2,000.

Parish church

St. Nicholas' parish church is on the south-east edge of the village next to Manor Farm and is reached by a footpath from Poling Street, next to the Old Vicarage.

Burials in St. Nicholas' churchyard include the Kent and MCC cricketer and cricket administrator Colin Cowdrey (1932–2000) and the explorer, botanist, artist and colonial administrator Sir Harry Johnston (1858–1927), who lived at St John's Priory. Johnston is also commemorated by a wall plaque in the nave carved by the Arts and Crafts sculptor and typeface designer Eric Gill, who lived at Ditchling, East Sussex. The main typeface used on the plaque seems to be Gill's Perpetua, which he designed in 1925 but did not release until 1929. The lower-case typeface used for the Latin quote below is not presently recognised.

References

[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density] [[United Kingdom Census 2011]] ''[[Office for National Statistics]]'' Retrieved 10 May 2014
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(2024-03-23). "Raf Station, Poling - Hansard - UK Parliament".

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