Sidlesham

Sidlesham
Sidlesham Primary School
Sidlesham is located in West Sussex
Sidlesham
Sidlesham
Location within West Sussex
Area17.53 km2 (6.77 sq mi) [1]
Population1,171. 2011 Census[2]
• Density65/km2 (170/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSZ853991
• London57 miles (92 km) NNE
Civil parish
  • Sidlesham
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCHICHESTER
Postcode districtPO20
Dialling code01243
PoliceSussex
FireWest Sussex
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
Websitehttp://www.sidlesham.org/
List of places
UK
England
West Sussex
50°47′09″N 0°47′25″W / 50.7857°N 0.79036°W / 50.7857; -0.79036

Sidlesham[3] is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, five kilometres (3 miles) south of Chichester in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It has a small primary school.[4] The area has had a prebendary since medieval times.[5] The 13th-century church of St Mary Our Lady is built of stone rubble, not the usual flint of the area.[6]

The parish has a land area of 1753 hectares (4330 acres). In the 2001 census 1139 people lived in 448 households, of whom 579 were economically active.[1] At the 2011 Census the population had increased to 1,171.[2]

The parish has fertile soils on the flat Chichester plain and there are many glasshouses around the village.

  1. ^ a b "2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish" (PDF). West Sussex County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  3. ^ Parish boundaries
  4. ^ Local Primary School
  5. ^ History of Prebendate
  6. ^ The Buildings of West Sussex Pevsner,N/Nairn,I.(Sussex (1965,Middlesex, Penguin p 356) ISBN 0-14-071028-0