ARUNDEL PARISH

Introduction

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 larger Chichester in its number of listed buildings in West Sussex. The River Arun runs through the eastern side of the town. From 1836 to 1889 the town had its own Borough police force with a strength of three. In 1974 it became part of the Arun district, and is now a civil parish with a town council. The name comes from the Old English Harhunedell, meaning "valley of horehound", and was first recorded in the Domesday Book. Folk etymology, however, connects the name with the Old French word arondelle, meaning "swallow", and swallows appear on the town's arms. A further possible translation derived from the Domesday spelling of Harundel comes from the Anglo Saxon hærn dæl meaning tidal valley.

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