Plaistow (/ˈplæstoʊ/ PLAST-oh[2]) is a village and civil parish in the north of the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.

Holy Trinity Church (a Chapel of Ease) was once a wooden structure which was destroyed by fire.

A plaque on the front of the school's original Victorian building acknowledges the significant funding from John Napper, Esquire of Ifold House, who then owned much of the land in the civil parish.

[3] The Parish lies on the northern boundary of West Sussex, and is made up of four settlements: Plaistow village and the hamlets of Ifold, Durfold Wood and Shillinglee.

There are also rare moths in this locality including: the argent and sable, common fan-foot, white-line snout, waved carpet and drab looper.