Clymping

Clymping

Climping beach at sunset
Clymping
 Clymping shown within West Sussex
Area  6.35 km2 (2.45 sq mi) [1]
Population 771 (Civil Parish)[2]
   – density  121/km2 (310/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTQ0002
   – London  52 miles (84 km) NNE 
Civil parishClymping
DistrictArun
Shire countyWest Sussex
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town LITTLEHAMPTON
Postcode district BN17
Dialling code 01903
Police Sussex
Fire West Sussex
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentBognor Regis and Littlehampton
Websitehttp://www.clymping.org.uk/
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Coordinates: 50°48′48″N 0°34′43″W / 50.8134°N 0.5785°W

Clymping is a civil parish containing agricultural and natural sandy land around the hamlet of Climping in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. The parish also contains the coastal hamlet of Atherington. It is three miles (5 km) west of Littlehampton, just north of the A259 road.

Amenities

The parish church, dedicated to St Mary, dates from 1080, and is teamed with those of Yapton and Ford under one vicar.

Fringing the coast towards the River Arun and Littlehampton are the Climping sand dunes, a 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

Sport and leisure

Clymping has a Non-League football club Clymping F.C. who play at Clymping Village Playing Fields. Clymping FC play in the Sussex County League Division 3. 2012/2013 sees a change in players and playing staff which the club will hope to move into Division 2.

References

  1. ↑ "2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish". West Sussex County Council. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  2. ↑ Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 21 November 2013

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