Stoughton is a village and

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in the District of Chichester in

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, England located north west of

Chichester Chichester ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in the Chichester District, Chichester district of West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher ...

east of the B2146 road, on a lane leading to

East Marden East Marden is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Marden, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is on the spur of the South Downs It is first mentioned in the Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle ...

. The parish has a land area of . In the 2001 census 631 people lived in 255 households, of whom 286 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population including

Walderton Walderton is a hamlet in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2146 road northeast of Emsworth. It is in the civil parish of Stoughton. The name Walderton derives from the ''town of Wealdhere's people''. The village ...

had increased to 659. The parish is crossed from west to east by the

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long-distance footpath, which passes through the villages of Stoughton and

. There is one pub, ''The Hare and Hounds''. Famous 19th-century

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was born in the village.

The parish church

The church, standing on a hillside overlooking the village, is of late Saxon or early Norman origin. Built around 1050, the church was restored around 1850. The Trinity Episcopal Church of Stoughton Massachusetts, USA received a stone from the ribbing in the old church's chancel area as a gift in 1935, presented to then Rector Marshall. It was placed in the floor of the pulpit. The restoration of some of its outer walls was at the behest of Elizabeth Killick, a naval engineer who was the first woman to become a fellow of the

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Landmarks

Kingley Vale Kingley Vale is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chichester in West Sussex. It is also a Special Area of Conservation and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. An area of is a national nature reserve. Part of the ...

lies on the border of the parish which is a

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and a national nature reserve. It is noted for its Yew woodlands. The site is also known for its archaeological interest including the Bronze Age barrow cemetery known as the Devil's Humps, Bronze Age and Roman earthworks,

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s, a camp and a field system.

War memorial

There is a memorial to Pilot Officer Bolesław Własnowolski V.M., K.W., by the side of the path to Kingley Vale, next to the field where his Hurricane crashed in November 1940.

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