[citation needed] Slinfold is the source of the western River Adur, which flows to the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea[4] Alfodean was excavated by archaeological television programme Time Team in 2006,[5] the site of one of a probable four mansiones on the route of Stane Street between London and Chichester.

[7] During the English Civil War the Parliamentarian commander Sir William Waller sacked a house on this site in 1643.

[7] Slinfold Manor, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the village, is a Georgian house built late in the 18th century.

Long ago some villagers, hoping to retrieve the bell, sought the advice of a witch.

The oxen were used, but one villager broke the witch's instructions by speaking, and the bell sank back into the bog.