Ferring

Ferring
Ferring Beach
Ferring Location within West Sussex
Area	3.81 km2 (1.47 sq mi) [1]
Population	4,480 (Civil/Ward Parish.2011)[2]
• Density	1,176/km2 (3,050/sq mi)
OS grid reference	TQ094026
• London	50 miles (80 km) NNE
Civil parish	Ferring
District	Arun
Shire county	West Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WORTHING
Postcode district	BN12
Dialling code	01903
Police	Sussex
Fire	West Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Worthing West
List of places UK England West Sussex 50°48′46″N 0°26′53″W / 50.81275°N 0.44812°W / 50.81275; -0.44812

Ferring is a coastal village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is part of the built-up area of Worthing and is accessed along the A259 road 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the town - comprising North Down Farm and Highdown Hill to the north and the town itself to the south, with approximately equal size green buffers to the town in size, to east to Goring-by-Sea and west to East Preston.

In the 2001 census 4361 people lived in 2179 households, of whom 1423 were economically active. The area's seafront is pedestrianised and the beach itself is a mixture of shingle and pebble, reinforced by groynes. The population at the 2011 Census was 4,480.^[2]

The site of the village is an ancient one: the name itself is Saxon; it is mentioned in the Domesday Book; the parish church is Norman, and is dedicated to St Andrew. In the churchyard are buried the ashes of Major John Bigelow Dodge (1894-1960), veteran of the Great Escape of 1944,^[3] and there is a Commonwealth war grave of a Royal Sussex Regiment officer of World War II.^[4]

Until the 1920s the village was a small one; when the south coast began to be built-up, particularly with holiday homes, Ferring began to increase in size.

Ferring has an amateur football club, Ferring Football Club, which plays at the Glebelands.

It also has an amateur cricket club, Ferring Cricket Club, which plays at the Little Twitten and is believed to have been established in 1864 or earlier. In 2024 the club entered into league cricket for the first time in its 160 year history. The club will still play friendly games on Sundays. The club has a youth section with three teams of different age groups.

Ferring Radio was a community licensed station broadcasting across the South Coast on 97.7fm originally for the benefit and experience of clients with special needs attending Ferring Country Centre. The station has been revived in 2020 on-line to provide music and local news and information during the extreme medical crisis and isolation.

The Ferring Rife is a stream in West Sussex, England that rises in the West Durrington area of Worthing. It has multiple sources including one near Castle Goring and another in Titnore Wood. The streams converge that make up the Ferring Rife converge north of Littlehampton Road, passing through Maybridge, then west of Ferring into the sea. It flows south-west, west and then south into the English Channel, between the villages of Ferring and East Preston.