Description
Climping, a parish in Sussex, at the mouth of the river Arun, 1 mile from Ford station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 4 miles SSW of Arundel. It has a post office under Little-hampton; money order and telegraph office, Littlehampton. Acreage, 2010 of land and 413 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 251. Lands here were held under Roger de Montgomery by the Norman abbey of Almenesches and St Martin at Seez. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £222. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is Early English, with circular windows above lancets, and has a Norman tower. It was restored in 1875. 27*
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
