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Dist:0.1km<br/>The title is possibly a slight misnomer as the boundary between the Civil Parish of Lyminster and Crossbush, and the Civil Parish of Littlehampton runs down the centre of the watercourse, but Lyminster is probably the nearest discrete settlement. Of these Lyminster and Crossbush is to the right and Littlehampton to the left. Nonetheless Black Ditch was glinting in the late afternoon sunshine and somewhat living up to its name, although the water was actually very clear and flowing well. I think that Black Ditch was a mediaeval waterway and was probably built at least in part to help drain the low lying land to the immediate north of the coast, to which it flows on a parallel route. It is a tributary of the River Arun and is seen here about a kilometre and a half upstream of their confluence.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>This little-used public footpath cuts off the corner of Lyminster Road where it makes a double right-angled turn through the village. The path is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1879 at which time Lyminster was, according to the OS, definitely spelt Leominster. Today the path is defined on the ground by nothing more than some bands of electric fencing separating various paddocks for horses.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km<br/>The main A284 from Crossbush to Littlehampton performs two 90 degree turns as it heads through Lyminster this is the second and gives some indication how tight it is. Taken from the junction with Church Lane.
©Simon Carey
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©Basher Eyre
Dist:0.3km<br/>St Mary Magdalene Church, Lyminster
©Janine Forbes
Dist:0.3km<br/>In the 18th century this flint and brick building was a coaching inn standing in isolation on the road between Littlehampton and Arundel. The urban sprawl of Littlehampton, including mobile home parks, has now spread up to it and beyond and the road is now the A284 Lyminster Road.
©Nigel Cox
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©Basher Eyre
Dist:0.3km<br/>Linking the A284 with the church whose lych gate can be seen in the distance. Lyminster, pronounced 'Limster', dates back to the 9th century when a monastery was established by the Saxons with a Benedictine nunnery established a century later which lasted until its suppression at the Reformation.
©Simon Carey
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©Basher Eyre
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©Basher Eyre
Dist:0.3km<br/>Viewed from the entrance on the A284.
©Simon Carey
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©Basher Eyre
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©Basher Eyre
Dist:0.4km<br/>Pevsner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Pevsner tells us in his definitive "The Buildings of England:Sussex" (Pevsner,N/LLoyd,D Penguin, Harmondsworth, 3rd edition 1977 ISBN 014071028 0) that the church "is west of the village on a bare site with a splendid view across the water meadows to Arundel; and that it is a typically Sussex church with a huge roof sweeping down over nave and aisle almost to the ground: high, narrow and majestic"
©Basher Eyre
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©Basher Eyre

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