CLIMPING, a parish in the hundred of AVISFORD, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 7 miles (S. S. W.) from Arundel, containing 258 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £9. 11. 0., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows, of Eton College. The church is cruciform, and principally in the early style of English architecture, with a Norman tower at the end of the south transept. The parish is bounded on the east by the river Arun, over which there is a ferry, and on the south by the English channel. There is a: small fund for the instruction of children.