Arundel is a market town and civil parish in a steep vale of the South Downs, West Sussex, England. It lies 49 miles SSW of London, 18 miles WNW of the English Channel town of Brighton, and 10 miles east of the county town of Chichester.
The much-conserved town with large
green buffers has a medieval castle and
Roman Catholic cathedral.
Arundel Castle was built by the
Normans to protect that vulnerable fairly wooded plain to the north of the valley through the South Downs. The town later grew up on the slope below the castle to the south.
The river was previously called the Tarrant and was renamed after the town by
antiquarians in a
back-formation.
Arundel is home to
Arundel Castle, seat of the
Duke of Norfolk; and to
Arundel Cathedral, seat of the (Catholic)
Bishop of Arundel and Brighton.
Source: Wikipedia
