Clymping Sussex Family History Guide

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Clymping is an Ancient Parish in the county of Sussex.

Other places in the parish include: Cudlow.

Alternative names: Climping

Parish church: 

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1678
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1572

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

  • Lyminster
  • Felpham
  • Ford
  • Yapton
  • Middleton
  • Littlehampton

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

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.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Sussex, Climping – Cemeteries ( 3 )
Climping, Sussex Co., England, monumental inscriptions

The monumental inscriptions at Clymping Church, Sussex
Author:    Prescott, Alison; Climping Local History Group (Sussex)

Monumental inscriptions of Climping Sussex
Author:    Fynmore, A. H. W.

England, Sussex, Climping – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Climping, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Sussex, Climping – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Climping, 1572-1894
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Climping (Sussex)

Monumental inscriptions of Climping Sussex
Author:    Fynmore, A. H. W.

Parish registers of Climping, 1678-1903
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Climping (Sussex)

Transcripts of parish registers and Bishop’s transcripts of Clymping, Sussex, England, 1572-1837
Author:    Challen, W. H. (William Harold); Church of England. Parish Church of Climping (Sussex)

England, Sussex, Climping – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Climping or Clymping, Suss., Eng

Computer printout of Climping, Sussex, England (1572-1876) : births or christenings
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department; Church of England. Parish Church of Climping (Sussex)

Computer printout of Climping, Sussex, England (1572-1878) : marriages
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department; Church of England. Parish Church of Climping (Sussex)

Parish register printouts of Climping, Sussex, England ; christenings, 1572-1876
Author:    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

England, Sussex, Climping – Land and property ( 1 )
Poor rates and overseers’ accounts, 1808-1840
Author:    Climping (Sussex)

England, Sussex, Climping – Manors – Court records ( 2 )
Manorial court records for Ford, 1540-1609
Author:    Manor of Ford & Climping. Court (Sussex)

Survey, 1608
Author:    Manor of Ford & Climping. Court (Sussex)

England, Sussex, Climping – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Poor rates and overseers’ accounts, 1808-1840
Author:    Climping (Sussex)

England, Sussex, Climping – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for the parish of Climping, 1780-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Sussex)

Poor rates and overseers’ accounts, 1808-1840
Author:    Climping (Sussex)

Administration

  • County:    Sussex
  • Civil Registration District:    Worthing
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) of Chichester for the
  • Archdeaconry of Chichester
  • Diocese:    Chichester
  • Rural Deanery:    Arundel
  • Poor Law Union:    East Preston
  • Hundred:    Avisford
  • Province:    Canterbury