Warningcamp is a
clustered village
A ''Haufendorf'' is an enclosed village with irregular plots of land and farms of greatly differing scale, usually surrounded by a stockade fence (German: ''Ortsetter''). They are typically found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whence the nam ...
and larger, semi-wooded mid-size
civil parish in the
Arun District of
West Sussex, England. It is centred
ENE of
Arundel
Arundel ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Arun District of the South Downs, West Sussex, England.
The much-conserved town has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral. Arundel has a museum and comes second behind much large ...
, on the east bank of the
River Arun. The south-east quarter of the parish is woodland.
History
A medieval chapelry community of the parish of
Lyminster, it contained 119 inhabitants in 1848. The tithes continued to belong until close to that date to
Eton College however were commuted for £191 10s () saving a small
glebe of for the College to help to support the position of the priest.
Contemporary description
Local historian Mary Barber wrote in 2002 that:
The
Monarch's Way long-distance footpath passes through the village close to the former
youth hostel. The parish has many footpaths and rises from 2m above mean high tide at the River Arun to 68m above
Ordnance Datum
In the British Isles, an ordnance datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used fo ...
along some of its north edge.
References
External links
Civil parish council website
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Villages in West Sussex
Arun District