Yapton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England.

St Mary the Virgin parish church, 13th century or earlier in origin, is in the centre of the village.

[4] The disused Portsmouth and Arundel Canal which linked nearby the River Arun to Chichester Harbour, runs through the village.

This was built primarily on the financial case it would be a safe inland shipping route between London and Portsmouth avoiding the then risk of attack in the English Channel by the French.

Throughout its lifetime, 1823-1855 - a time when the Wey and Arun Canal was open (having opened 7 years earlier and having closed in 1871) - the route was used for transporting agricultural goods and munitions, for instance, from Chilworth and Hanworth gunpowder works and to/from the military docks on the lower Thames in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.