# Climping

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Village and parish in West Sussex, England

Human settlement in England

Climping (Clymping) Climping beach at sunset Climping (Clymping) Location within West Sussex Area 6.35 km2 (2.45 sq mi) [1] Population 771 (Civil Parish 2011)[2] • Density 121/km2 (310/sq mi) OS grid reference TQ0002 • London 52 miles (84 km) NNE Civil parish Climping District Arun Shire county West Sussex Region South East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town LITTLEHAMPTON Postcode district BN17 Dialling code 01903 Police Sussex Fire West Sussex Ambulance South East Coast UK Parliament Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Website http://www.clymping.org.uk/ List of places UK England West Sussex 50°48′48″N 0°34′43″W / 50.8134°N 0.5785°W / 50.8134; -0.5785

**Climping** (also spelt as **Clymping**) is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) containing agricultural and natural sandy land in the [Arun](/source/Arun_District) District of [West Sussex](/source/West_Sussex), England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is three miles (5 km) west of [Littlehampton](/source/Littlehampton), just north of the [A259 road](/source/A259_road).

## Amenities

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, dates from 1080, and is teamed with those of [Yapton](/source/Yapton) and [Ford](/source/Ford%2C_West_Sussex) under one [vicar](/source/Vicar). There is a [canonical sundial](/source/Tide_dial), dating from the 12th century, on the south wall.

Climping village hall was designed in 1930s by architect [Herbert Collins](/source/Herbert_Collins).[3]

Fringing the coast towards the [River Arun](/source/River_Arun) and Littlehampton are the [Climping sand dunes](/source/Climping_sand_dunes), a [Site of Special Scientific Interest](/source/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.

Climping Windmill

## Atherington

Some time after 1102 [Séez Abbey](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_S%C3%A9ez) in [Normandy](/source/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](/source/Alien_houses) in around 1415 by [Henry V](/source/Henry_V_of_England), the confiscated monastic properties of Atherington were given to [Syon Abbey](/source/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).[4][5]

## 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](/source/Littlehampton).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WSCC2001_1-0)** ["2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110608075926/http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/communityandliving/census2001/pop_parish_summary.pdf) (PDF). West Sussex County Council. Archived from [the original](http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/communityandliving/census2001/pop_parish_summary.pdf) (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ons_2-0)** [Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density](http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/) 11 February 2003 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) [United Kingdom Census 2011](/source/United_Kingdom_Census_2011) *[Office for National Statistics](/source/Office_for_National_Statistics)* Retrieved 21 November 2013

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** 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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Historic England Research Records Monument Number 392811"](https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=392811&resourceID=19191). *Heritage Gateway*. Retrieved 27 August 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Page, William, ed. (1973) [1907]. "Alien houses: Ballivate of Atherington". [*A History of the County of Sussex*](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol2/p120). Victoria County History. Vol. 2. British History Online. p. 120.

## External links

- [History of Climping](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22941) in the [Victoria County History](/source/Victoria_County_History) of Sussex

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Climping](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Climping).

v t e Settlements in the Arun district of West Sussex Towns Arundel Bognor Regis Littlehampton Villages and hamlets Aldingbourne Aldwick Ancton Angmering Atherington Barnham Bilsham Binsted Burpham Clapham Climping East Preston Eastergate Elmer Felpham Ferring Findon Flansham Fontwell Ford Houghton Kingston Gorse Lagness Lyminster Madehurst Middleton-on-Sea Nepcote North Bersted Nyetimber Offham Pagham Patching Poling Rose Green Rustington Shripney Slindon South Bersted South Stoke Toddington Tortington Walberton Warningcamp Wepham Westergate Wick Yapton Civil parishes List of civil parishes in the Arun district

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