Lyminster
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| Area | 5.87 km2 (2.27 sq mi) [1] |
| Population | 369 (2011 Census)[2] |
| • Density | 60/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] TQ025047] |
| • London | 50 miles (80 km) NNE |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Littlehampton |
| Postcode district | BN17 |
| Dialling code | 01903 |
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| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
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| Website | Lyminster and Crossbush Parish Council |
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Lyminster is a village that is the main settlement of Lyminster and Crossbush civil parish, in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It borders, to the south, Littlehampton, which has its town centre 2 miles (3 km) away.
Landmarks
Church
The Church of England parish church of St Mary Magdalene is an 11th-century SaxonLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. building and a Grade I listed building, the highest grading in the national system.[3]
- Bells
The church has a ring of six bells. Lester and Pack of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble, second and fourth bells in 1759.[4] John Warner and Sons of Cripplegate, London cast the third and fifth bells in 1887,[4] the year of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1950.[4]
History
According to the Hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript the village is the burial place of Saint Cuthflæd of Lyminster.[5][6]
Folklore
Just to the north of the village is a knuckerhole which, according to folklore, was home to a dragon, the Knucker.The church contains a tombstone called the Slayer's Slab, supposed to be from the tomb of the dragonslayer.[7]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish" (PDF). West Sussex County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Area: Lyminster and Crossbush (Parish); Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rix, Geoff (6 July 2012). "Lyminster S Mary Magd". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Central Council of Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ^ Stowe MS 944 Script error: No such module "webarchive"., British Library
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bane, Theresa (22 May 2016). "Knucker". Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. McFarland. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-4766-2268-2.
Sources and further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 267–268. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, William, ed. (1973). A History of the County of Sussex. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. p. 121.
External links
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