Arundel
Arundel ( or ) is a market town and civil parish in the Arun District of the South Downs, West Sussex, England.
The much-conserved town has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral. 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 to 1889 the town had its own Borough police force with a strength of three. In 1974 it became part of the Arun district, and is now a civil parish with a town council.
The name comes from the Old English Harhunedell, meaning "valley of horehound", and was first recorded in the Domesday Book. Folk etymology, however, connects the name with the Old French word arondelle, meaning "swallow", and swallows appear on the town's arms.
A further possible translation derived from the Domesday spelling of Harundel comes from the Anglo Saxon hærn dæl meaning tidal valley, this would mean that the name of the river Arun probably also derives from Tidal. Other local rivers such as the Rother deriving from the Anglo Saxon róðer which means Rower (as in a long river) are also descriptive of the river and its surrounds.
A more speculative, esoteric connection has been sometimes drawn by linguists like Theo Vennemann (via the Vasconic substrate hypothesis, and in this case cognate to Basque, "valley") to towns like Val d'Aran in, France, Ahrntal in Austria, and Arendal in Norway.
The much-conserved town has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral. 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 to 1889 the town had its own Borough police force with a strength of three. In 1974 it became part of the Arun district, and is now a civil parish with a town council.
The name comes from the Old English Harhunedell, meaning "valley of horehound", and was first recorded in the Domesday Book. Folk etymology, however, connects the name with the Old French word arondelle, meaning "swallow", and swallows appear on the town's arms.
A further possible translation derived from the Domesday spelling of Harundel comes from the Anglo Saxon hærn dæl meaning tidal valley, this would mean that the name of the river Arun probably also derives from Tidal. Other local rivers such as the Rother deriving from the Anglo Saxon róðer which means Rower (as in a long river) are also descriptive of the river and its surrounds.
A more speculative, esoteric connection has been sometimes drawn by linguists like Theo Vennemann (via the Vasconic substrate hypothesis, and in this case cognate to Basque, "valley") to towns like Val d'Aran in, France, Ahrntal in Austria, and Arendal in Norway.
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