Sompting
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Sompting is a village and civil parish in the coastal Adur District of West Sussex, England between Lancing and Worthing. It is half grassland slopes and half developed plain at the foot of the South Downs National Park. Twentieth-century estates dovetail into those of slightly larger Lancing.
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- UK place.official_name
- Sompting
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Sompting Church.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 200
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Tower of St Mary's Church, 2004
- UK place.area_total_sq_mi
- 4.00
- UK place.population
- 8,561
- UK place.population_ref
- (Civil Parish 2011)
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 10.35
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ170047
- UK place.post_town
- LANCING
- UK place.postcode_area
- BN
- UK place.postcode_district
- BN15
- UK place.dial_code
- 01903
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- East Worthing and Shoreham
- UK place.london_distance
- N
- UK place.shire_district
- Adur
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Sompting is a village and civil parish in the coastal Adur District of West Sussex, England between Lancing and Worthing. It is half grassland slopes and half developed plain at the foot of the South Downs National Park. Twentieth-century estates dovetail into those of slightly larger Lancing.
==Etymology== The village's name comes from the Old English *sumpt + -ingas, meaning "(settlement of) the dwellers at the marsh". Its earliest recorded form is Suntinga, in a document of 956, but Domesday Book (1086) renders the name as Sultinges, its Norman-speaking clerks being unfamiliar with the consonant-cluster -mpt. As the toponymist Adrian Room noted, there is no obviously marshy land there nowadays, but it is low-lying and near the sea.
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