Findon is a semi-rural clustered village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Worthing.
Governance
An electoral ward in the same name. This ward stretches south west to Patching with a total ward population as at the 2011 census of 2,557.
Geography
The parish is on the slopes of and between two hills: Cissbury with its Iron Age hill fort to the east and a steep knoll Church Hill to the west. A further escarpment to the West and North stretches along the borders of the area. On the two named hills are remains of prehistoric flint mines where shafts were sunk about to reach the best seams of flint which were mined from radiating galleries. Near Muntham Court to the west of the village can be found a late Iron Age and Romano-British settlement site designated as a scheduled monument. The village is now bypassed by the A24 as it crosses the South Downs: the bypass was constructed in 1938. A modern settlement to the south of the village, inside the boundary of the Borough of Worthing is called Findon Valley. The parish is settled as a nucleated village at between and above sea level (Ordnance Datum) and the South Downs rise to and to west and east respectively.
Amenities
The parish church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, stands to the west of the village and the A24 road near the 18th-century mansion Findon Place. The church is built of flint to an unusual design, the nave and north aisle having been given a single-span roof with king-posts resting on the arcade, probably in the 15th century. The screen is a rare 13th-century example, but heavily restored.