Patching

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Patching
Patching shown within West Sussex
OS grid reference	TQ087063
District	Arun
Shire county	West Sussex
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Sussex
Fire	West Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Arundel and South Downs
List of places: UK • England • West Sussex

Coordinates: 50°50′49″N 0°27′24″W / 50.84687, -0.45663

Patching is a small village and civil parish that lies amidst the fields & woods of the southern slopes of the South Downs in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It has a history going back to before the Domesday survey of 1087. It is located 4 miles (6.4km) to the east of Arundel, to the north of the A27 road. The civil parish covers an area of 846.12ha and has a population of 230 persons (2001 census).

In the centre of the village is the 13th century Church of St John the Divine (restored 1888). Above the village on the South Downs are groups of neolithic flint mines, represented by slight hollows and mounds.

Michelgrove Park, once the site of a great house where Sir William Shelley entertained Henry VIII and later home of the Shelley Baronets, lies in the north of the parish. It is crossed by the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath marking the supposed route of Charles II's flight to France in 1651.

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The book Bricks and Water, taking its title from the brick and tile works in Clapham and the source of water from Patching Pond that was used for farming, charts 100 years of social History in Patching and its neighbouring village Clapham.^[1]

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[edit] External Links

• Angmering Project has all of Angmering census returns and surrounding villages including Patching available to view.

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