Compton
Compton is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex. The village lies on the B2146 road, six miles southeast of Petersfield, Hampshire and eight miles northwest of Chichester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 374 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in West Sussex, UK
- Also known as: “Compton, West Sussex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Coach And Horses Public House and The Parish Church of St Mary.
Bevis’s Thumb long barrow, 370m west of Fernbeds Farm
Archaeological site
Photo: Chris Thomas-Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bevis’s Thumb long barrow, 370m west of Fernbeds Farm is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Marden and Up Marden.
West Marden
Village
West Marden is a hamlet in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. Situated in a small valley, it lies on the B2146 road 5 miles north of Emsworth. It is in the civil parish of Compton.
Up Marden
Hamlet
Photo: Oxenhillshaw, Public domain.
Up Marden is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Compton, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is on the South Downs 7 miles north-west of Chichester, close to East Marden and North Marden.
East Marden
Hamlet
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 as Meredone and was given in 1086 to Roger, Earl of Montgomery. East Marden is situated 2 miles east of Compton.
Compton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Compton, Chichester District, West Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.92741° or 50° 55′ 39″ northLongitude
-0.89695° or 0° 53′ 49″ westPopulation
374Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9C2XW4G3+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 29267224OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2652493Wikidata ID
Q2083029
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Compton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Compton”
- Chinese: “Compton”
- Dutch: “Compton”
- French: “Compton”
- Irish: “Compton”
- Japanese: “コンプトン (ウェスト・サセックス)”
- Ladin: “Compton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Compton (West Sussex)”
- Polish: “Compton”
- Swedish: “Compton, West Sussex”
- Swedish: “Compton”
- “Compton”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Compton Corner and Fernbeds Down.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Compton and Up Marden CofE Primary School and Admiralty Semaphore Station - Compton Down.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Compton”. Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.