Official Name: | Coombes |
Static Image Name: | Coombes church.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Coombes parish church |
Os Grid Reference: | TQ192083 |
Coordinates: | 50.8617°N -0.3075°W |
Label Position: | top |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.03 |
Population: | 51 |
Population Ref: | (2001 Census) |
Population Density: | 25/sqmi |
Civil Parish: | Coombes |
Shire District: | Adur |
Shire County: | West Sussex |
Region: | South East England |
Country: | England |
Post Town: | Lancing |
Postcode Area: | BN |
Postcode District: | BN15 |
Dial Code: | 01903 |
Constituency Westminster: | East Worthing and Shoreham |
London Distance: | N |
Coombes is a small village and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. The village is in the Adur Valley 2miles northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea.
Coombes Church is an 11th-century Church of England parish church that has lost its dedication. It has some of the most important medieval wall paintings in England, which were painted . There is a single church bell that weighs about and was probably cast in Normandy. It is one of the oldest bells in Sussex, dated to . The church is roofed with Horsham Stone slabs.
The civil parish has an area of 525.81ha and has a parish meeting rather than a parish council. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 51 people living in 22 households of whom 23 were economically active.[1]
Church Farm is next to the parish church and Applesham Farm is about 0.6miles to the south.