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Angmering is a large village between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex, United Kingdom. It is located approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of the English Channel; Worthing and Littlehampton are about 4 miles (6 km) to the east and west respectively. Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ...
Littlehampton is a town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex on the south coast of England. ...
Worthing is a large town and a local government district in West Sussex, England. ...
West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove), Hampshire and Surrey. ...
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: (IPA: ), the sleeve; Dutch: Het Kanaal) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
Overview
The parish is about 7 miles (10 km) long (from north to south) and 2 miles (3 km) wide and covers some 19 square kilometres. Its roots stretch back to the Bronze Age and it is also the site of a substantial Roman Villa. A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...
The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...
Motto Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Roman Empire at its greatest extent. ...
A villa was originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably. ...
The village has a church (St Margaret's, designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1852), two schools, several small shops, a post office and many historic houses from the 1600s onwards. It is in a semi-rural area with many farms. With the building of the Bramley Green development, the population in 2005 is close to 8000. Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812-1873) was a notable English architect of the 19th century. ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
The village's name is of an old Saxon form, meaning "the followers or dependents of Angenmaer".[1]
Near Angmering is Highdown Hill, a National Trust property where one can picnic on the smooth grass near the edges of a former chalk quarry. Highdown Hill is a high hill in the South Downs, as its name suggests. ...
The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ...
A dimension stone quarry. ...
The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Famous residents Severn class lifeboat in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. ...
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Twinning Since 1976, Angmering has been twinned with the French village of Ouistreham, which is in the Calvados region of Normandy. Ouistreham is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Basse-Normandie région, in France. ...
For the apple brandy produced in the region, see Calvados (spirit). ...
Flag of Normandy Normandy (in French: Normandie, and in Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region in northern France. ...
Notes - ^ Hunter Blair, Peter (1966). Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. - A.D. 871. W.W. Norton & Company, 176. ISBN 0-393-00361-2.
External links - Angmering website has approximately 100 pages of local history, photographs and other resources
- Angmering School of Dance has details of Dance classes and events.
Coordinates: 50.82841° N 0.48636° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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