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Middleton (electoral division)

electoral division of West Sussex, in the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ6841999 ↗
Source-derived summary

Middleton is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Extent

The division covers the villages of Atherington, Climping, Elmer, Ford, Middleton-on-Sea and Yapton.

It comprises the following Arun District wards: Middleton-on-Sea Ward and Yapton Ward; and of the following civil parishes: Climping, Ford, Middleton-on-Sea and the northern part of Yapton.

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This entry incorporates text from “Middleton (electoral division)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.