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}}{{Infobox UK place | official_name=Rustington | country=England | civil_parish=Rustington | region=South East England | static_image_name=Rustington Village Centre - geograph.org.uk - 12082.jpg | static_image_caption= View of the main highstreet |population=13883 |area_total_km2=3.72 |population_ref=(Civil Parish.2011)[1] | os_grid_reference=TQ054022 | coordinates = {{coord|50.81019|-0.50521|display=inline,title}} | post_town=LITTLEHAMPTON | postcode_area=BN | postcode_district=BN16 | dial_code=01903 | constituency_westminster=Worthing West | london_distance={{convert|51|mi}} NNE | shire_district=Arun | shire_county=West Sussex | website=Rustington Parish Council Rustington is a village and civil parish within Littlehampton in the Arun District of West Sussex. Rustington is approximately at the midpoint of the West Sussex coast and midway between the county town of Chichester and Brighton. The A259 runs along the north of Rustington, westward to Littlehampton, Bognor Regis and Chichester, and east to Worthing and Brighton. With a population of over 14,000 in 2014, it has the size and facilities of a small town, including a shopping area with a mix of independent and chain stores. The parish of Rustington includes the neighbourhood of West Preston. HistoryRustington was in World War I home to an American air base, at the east of the High Street.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}} Conservation area and information centreRustington contains a conservation area which extends from the south end of North Lane to The Lamb in The Street. Here, where trees are protected, are the largest number of pre-1850 listed buildings in the post town, with The Street and surrounding roads containing some of the finest 17th and 18th century Sussex flint cottages in West Sussex, some of which are thatched. There is a village information centre at the Churchill Parade car park.[2] Rustington has its own museum, containing artworks and artefacts and a coffee shop, housed in an 18th-century thatched house recently converted for the purpose.[3] Annual eventsRustington competes annually in the South-East in Bloom competition. It holds an annual carnival and fête in August. Close to Christmas Eve, Rustington has a village carol concert which is free for local residents and features local school children accompanied by the Littlehampton Concert Band. GeographyRustington adjoins the English Channel, and ranges between 2 metres and 7 metres above Ordnance Datum. It has three main recreation grounds and neither woodland nor fields.[4] In music, literature and the mediaRustington is a well-known hymn tune by Hubert Parry who lived and died in Rustington (see Notable People below). Rustington achieved national fame in 1956 with the launch of Flanders and Swann's show At the Drop of a Hat, in which the Gnu Song contains the lines:
Shopping facilitiesRustington has independent shops such as butchers, greengrocers and bakers. It has some major banks and a post office serving a population of 40,000. Pedestrianised areas benefit the Churchill Court Shopping Courtyard. On display in the high street is a large Late Ice Age erratic boulder; this was brought to Rustington on ice during the last Ice Age. It was re-discovered in a local field named Stonefield having been used as a boundary marker for many years. Rustington also has a retail park on the A259 road. Sport and leisureRustington has an amateur football club Rustington F.C. who play at the Recreation Ground. Also a cricket club based on the same ground and play throughout the summer with two teams on Saturday's and one on Sunday's. In 2006, they didn't lose a single match, earning them a mention on Sky Sports News on New Year's Eve. In 2017 the club celebrated its 125 Anniversary. The Saturday teams play in the West Sussex Invitation League and in 2016 the first eleven won the Division 4 title. TransportRustington shares Angmering railway station with Angmering and East Preston. Trains from this station go to Brighton and Portsmouth/Southampton, as well as regular services to London. Bus services to Brighton and Portsmouth are provided by the 700 Coastliner with many stops within the village itself. Popular cultureIn the Gnu Song, introduced in the 1950s by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, the second verse begins with the line, "I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-Sea". This is the setting for an apparition of a gnu. In the newsHot cross bun
Air speed recordsTwo world air speed records were set over Rustington sea front.
To celebrate, on 7 September 1996, Neville Duke returned to Rustington to unveil a plaque, marking the event, joined by a Gloster Meteor and a Hawker Hunter, which flew over the sea front. Twin towns
Notable people
References1. ^Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014 2. ^Littlehampton Gazette 3. ^{{cite web|title=Rustington Museum|url=http://www.rustingtonmuseum.org/|accessdate=8 September 2014}} 4. ^Outline civil parish map Neighbourhood Statistics. The Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2014-05-12. 5. ^The Argus 28 March 2002 6. ^Thomas, Nick. RAF Top Gun: Teddy Donaldson CB, DSO, AFC and Bar Battle of Britain Ace and World Air Speed Record Holder, Pen & Sword, 2008. {{ISBN|1-84415-685-0}} 7. ^[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E3DB1639F931A15754C0A960958260 1996 Obituary for Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe who grew up in Rustington] 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34777/34777.html|title=Player profile: Andrew Pearson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=3 August 2011}} External links{{Commons category-inline|Rustington}}
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