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Arundel
Arundel ( or ) is a market town and civil parish in a steep vale of the South Downs, West Sussex, England. It lies SSW of London, WNW of the English Channel town of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Larger nearby towns include Worthing, Littlehampton and Bognor Regis. The much-conserved town with large green buffers has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral. Although smaller in population than most other parishes, Arundel has a museum and comes second behind much larger Chichester in its number of listed buildings in West Sussex. The River Arun runs through the eastern side of the town.
Arundel was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. From 1836-1889 the town had its own Borough police force with a strength of three. 〔 Neville Poulsom, Mike Rumble and Keith Smith 'Sussex Police forces;a pictorial history from 1836 to 1986' (Middleton Press) (1987) ISBN 0 906520 436 〕 In 1974 it became part of the Arun district, and now is a civil parish with a town council.
==Etymology==
The meaning of the name 'Arundel' has contesting theories. One is that the upper reaches of the Arun, away from the sea, was once known as the ''Arnus'', from the Brythonic word Arno, meaning run or go. So Arundel would mean Arno-dell or the dell of the flowing river. Another theory is that due to the preponderance of hoarhound on the slopes of the Arun near the town, Arundel would mean hoarhound-dell. A third explanation is that the town takes its name from the old Norman French word for swallow, ''aronde'' (in modern standard French ''hirondelle''), a bird which is on the town's crest. The name was spelled ''Arundell'' until 1733, when the final l was dropped. A new theory (Theo Vennemann) relates the 'Arun' part to Basque ''aran'' 'valley' (substratic reduplication or tautology), like the placename Arendal in Norway and Sweden. However, it seems rather more likely that the Scandinavian placenames derive from Old Norse ''arnardalr'' 'eagle dell' or ''arindalr'' 'dwelling dell'. Similarly, the name of Arundel could just as well derive from Old English ''earndæl'' or ''ærndæl'', meaning 'eagle dell' and 'dwelling dell' respectively.
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