Editing Lancing, West Sussex (section)

==History==
In 1828, remains of what may be an [[Iron Age]] [[shrine]] and to its west a later [[Romano-British]] temple were found just west of Lancing Ring.<ref>{{cite web |author=Andy Horton |url= http://www.glaucus.org.uk/LancRing.htm |title=Lancing Ring |publisher=Glaucus.org.uk |access-date=18 October 2010 |archive-date=24 November 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101124200529/http://glaucus.org.uk/LancRing.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The Romano-British temple was located within an oval [[temenos]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.romansinsussex.co.uk/level3/search/site_detail.asp?sitenumber=81 |title=Level 3 Search - Home Page |publisher=Romans in Sussex |access-date=18 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20010426072045/http://www.romansinsussex.co.uk/level3/search/site_detail.asp?sitenumber=81 |archive-date=26 April 2001 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and seems to have been built in the 1st century AD.<ref>{{cite web |author=Togodumnus (Kevan White) |url= http://www.roman-britain.org/places/lancing_down.htm |title=Lancing Down Temple |publisher=Roman-britain.org |access-date=18 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101017193802/http://www.roman-britain.org/places/lancing_down.htm |archive-date=17 October 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> A track has existed since [[Celts|Celtic]] [[Britons (historic)|British]] times which ran from [[Chanctonbury Ring]] via [[Cissbury Ring]] to Lancing Ring and from then on to a probable [[Ford (crossing)|ford]] across the [[River Adur]] by the modern Sussex Pad, close to the Old Tollbridge at [[Shoreham-by-Sea|Old Shoreham]]. Among this lowest lying farmland to the east of the village proper are remains of medieval salt workings. The Roman road from ''[[Noviomagus Reginorum]]'' ([[Chichester]])  to ''Novus Portus'' (probably [[Portslade]] near [[Brighton]]) also ran through modern North Lancing (along the Street) down to the ford.

===1800–1945===
Much of the land which is residential was formerly taken up by family-run [[market gardening]] businesses growing fruit or flowers for the [[Brighton]] Market or [[Covent Garden]] in London. The largest businesses were ''Sparks'' who grew fruit such as tomatoes and ''Young's'' which produced carnations. Chrysanthemums were grown by Frank Lisher on land south of The Finches, in a house that he had built. ''Nash's'' fruit growers produced grapes under huge glass [[wiktionary:cloches|cloches]] that could be rolled into place on a rail track.

[[Lancing railway station]] opened with what is now known as the [[West Coastway Line]] in 1849. Between 1908 and 1912 the [[London, Brighton and South Coast Railway]] developed its [[Lancing Carriage Works|railway wagon and carriage works]] in the area that is now the Lancing Business Park, closed in 1965 as part of British Rail's [[Beeching Axe|Beeching Plan of 1963]]. The land on which the works were sited was predominantly turned over to this park, which is also known as the [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] Industrial Estate.

Few buildings pre-dating 1820 are here, however one example is a central former farmhouse, which is now a home named Monks Farm Presbytery on North Road.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1353734|desc=Monks Farm Presbytery|access-date=5 May 2014}}</ref>

===Since 1945===
Following [[World War II]] market gardening gave way to housing as diets became more exotic and more difficult to ripen fruits such as grapes began to be imported in greater numbers; this growth was most rapid between 1945 and 1970, with more muted housing growth following on in most years. The village has a large business park, and many smaller local business establishments. In economics and transport, the suburb forms part of the linear and diverse [[Brighton and Hove built-up area|Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation]].