[2] The village is on a spur of slightly higher ground on the east bank of a loop of the River Arun, surrounded by water meadows.

A suspension bridge on the path was rebuilt by British Army Gurkhas in 2009 after being damaged by a falling tree.

It has lost most of its population, possibly due to Black Death in the Middle Ages or because the landowner preferred to enclose the land for sheep pasture.

This has left a notable example of a Norman and Early English Gothic church, which is Listed Grade I.

[6] The church's dedication had been long forgotten but in 2007 it was rediscovered from a scrap of a vellum letter dated 1275 from Stephen Bersted, Bishop of Chichester to Edward I.