Angmering

The name Angmering probably derives from a Saxon farming settlement of about 600AD. It is thought that the original name was Angenmaering, meaning Angenmaer's people.{{cite book|title=Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. – A.D. 871|last=Hunter Blair|first=Peter|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|year=1966|isbn=0-393-00361-2|pages=176}}

Various name changes took place over the centuries and these included Angemeringatun, Angmerengatum, Angemaeringum, Angemeringe, Aingmarying, Angmarrying, Angemare and Ameringe. Towards the end of the 9th century Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, bequeathed to his kinsman Osferthe ‘... Angmerengatum and the land that thereto longyth’.{{cite web|title=Brief History of Angmering|url=http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/anghist.htm|website=Angmering Village Life|publisher=Angmering Parish Council|access-date=18 August 2014}}

A large Roman villa was discovered nearby and part-excavated in the 1930s. The excavation was mainly centred on a large bath house complex comprising at least eight rooms. It may have been occupied by an important Roman citizen or a member of the Romano-British aristocracy, like the palace at Fishbourne, and dates from the same period of 65–75AD.{{Cite web|url=http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/history/villa.htm|title=Angmering History - Roman Villa}}

With the recent development of the Bramley Green site, an influx of new residents has brought Angmering's electoral ward's resident population at the 2011 census to 7,788.{{cite web|title=Ward Profiles: Angmering|url=http://www.arun.gov.uk/mediaFiles/downloads/92376830/Ward_Profile_2013__Angmering_.pdf|website=arun.gov.uk|publisher=Arun District Council|access-date=18 August 2014}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2001 the population was 5,639, illustrating the 38.1 per cent increase in the village's population over the previous decade or so.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=11120018&c=angmering&d=16&e=13&g=6473083&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1408374202454&enc=1&dsFamilyId=781|title=Angmering – Parish Profile: 2001|website=Neighbourhood Statistics: ONS|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=18 August 2014}} By 2023, the population had grown to about 10,100.

According to the Office for National Statistics based on the 2011 census 97.6 per cent of the 7,788 population of Angmering were white with 94.3 per cent being white British, 0.7 per cent white Irish and 2.6 per cent identifying as white Other. 2.4 percent of Angmering's residents are from a black or minority ethnic background.

According to the 2011 census, the largest religious grouping is Christians (66 per cent), followed by those of no religion (25.2 per cent). Angmering has a 12th-century Anglican church, St Margaret's (re-built by Samuel Sanders Teulon in 1852 and reordered in 2009), a small Catholic congregation centred on St Wilfred's Catholic Primary School, and a Baptist church.

The parish is about {{convert|7|mi|km|spell=in}} long (from north to south) and {{convert|2|mi|km|spell=in}} wide. Its roots stretch back to the Bronze Age and it is also the site of a substantial Roman villa.

The village has three schools, several small shops, a post office and many historic houses from the 15th century onwards. It is in a semi-rural area with many farms. It has had various housing developments in the area. Previously it was the most populous area of its old parliamentary constituency, however that has since changed in accordance with the boundary review in 2023 that lead to the Angmering and Findon ward being given to the Worthing West constituency. Angmering is in a unique position of being a part of the Worthing West constituency, but falling under Arun District Council; most of the constituency falls under Adur and Worthing Council.

Angmering is home to Worthing Rugby Football Club, a national level professional rugby club which occupies extensive grounds in the east of the village. Angmering Football Club play their home games at the Recreation Field in Decoy Drive. They play in the West Sussex Football League. The team have had recent success in the Chichester Charity Cup, winning the cup in the 23/24 season. The team is currently managed by George Sayers. {{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Childhood home of Abbess Katherine Palmer (d. 1576) and Thomas Palmer (d 22 August 1553) soldier and courtier executed for his support of Lady Jane Grey in the succession crisis of 1553.{{Cite ODNB |title=Palmer, Katherine (d. 1576), abbess of Syon |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-96817 |access-date=2023-12-02 |date=2008 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/96817 |last1=Cunich |first1=Peter }}{{Cite ODNB |title=Palmer, Sir Thomas (b. after 1496, d. 1553), soldier and conspirator |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-21217 |access-date=2023-12-02 |date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/21217}}

The village was the birthplace of Tom Oliver, who, after adding an l to his name to become Olliver, became the winning rider of the 1842, 1843 and 1853 Grand Nationals. Impresario Lord Bernard Delfont and record producer Norman Newell have lived in Angmering. The actor and singer Stanley Holloway lived in the parish of East Preston (Angmering-on-Sea) with his wife before his death in 1982.Holloway and Richards, p. 112.

Portrait artist Juliet Pannett (1911–2005) and her family lived in Angmering from the mid-1960s until 2004.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1498184/Juliet-Pannett.html|first=Justin|last=Parkinson|title=Obituary: Juliet Pannett|newspaper=the Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=12 September 2005}}

Since 1976, Angmering has been twinned with the coastal French town of Ouistreham in the Calvados department of Normandy.

• {{flagicon|FRA}} Ouistreham, France{{cite web|url=http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4#tabs3 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131127063207/http://www.cncd.fr/frontoffice/bdd-region.asp?action=getRegion&id=4 |url-status = dead|archive-date=27 November 2013 |title=National Commission for Decentralised cooperation |access-date=26 December 2013 |work=Délégation pour l'Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) |language=fr |df=dmy }}

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• {{cite book |title= Wiv a little bit o' luck: The life story of Stanley Holloway|last=Holloway|first=Stanley|author2=Richards, Dick|year=1967|publisher=Frewin|location= London|oclc=3647363|pages=112}}

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• [http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk Angmering Village Life] contains extensive village history, local news, organisations, traders, photos, videos, forums, etc.
• [http://www.familytreedesigns.co.uk/angmering.htm Angmering Project] has all of Angmering census returns and surrounding villages available to view.
• [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Angmering Further historical information and sources on GENUKI]
• {{OpenDomesday|TQ0604|angmering|Angmering}}

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