CLIMPING, a parish in Worthing district, Sussex; at the mouth of the river Arun and on the South Coast railway, 1 mile WSW of Arundel and Littlehampton r. station, and 4 SSW of Arundel. It has a post office under Arundel. Acres, 2, 185; of which 380 are water. Real property, £3, 736. Pop., 331. Houses, 50. The property is subdivided. 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, £304.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is early English, with circular windows above lancets; and has a Norman tower.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))