Turner was also a frequent guest of George O ' Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont at Petworth House in West Sussex and painted scenes that Egremont funded taken from the grounds of the house and of the Sussex countryside, including a view of the Chichester Canal.

Chichester Canal ( painting ) | Chichester Canal s vivid colours may have been influenced by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815.

It has been theorised that it was this that gave rise to the yellow tinge that is predominant in his paintings such as Chichester Canal circa 1828.

Chichester Canal circa 1828 by J. M. W. Turner According to historian L. D.

* Chichester Canal

Between 1825 and 1828 the architect and civil engineer Nicholas Wilcox Cundy proposed a Grand Imperial Ship Canal from Deptford to Chichester passing through the Mole Gap, however he was unable to attract sufficient financial interest in his scheme.

Chichester Canal circa 1828 | Chichester Canal by J. M. W.

The section of the canal that would become the Chichester Canal was formally opened on the 9 April 1822

The section below Cutfield Bridge continued to be leased to the Chichester Yacht Company while the upper part of the canal was leased to Chichester Canal Angling Association.

* The website of the Chichester Ship Canal Trust

An historic causeway to Hayling Island exists, however it is now completely impassible, having been cut in two by a deep channel for the Portsmouth and Chichester Canal in the 1820s, the same company having subsequently funded the road bridge.

The western boundary with Langstone Harbour is defined by an historic causeway known as the wade way, once the principle access from Hayling Island to the mainland, but since bisected by a deep channel for the Portsmouth and Chichester Canal in the 1820s, and no longer safely traversable.

J. M. W. Turner | Turner – Chichester Canal ( painting ) | Chichester Canal

* J. M. W. Turner – Chichester Canal

To the west is Langstone Harbour and to the east is Chichester Harbour.

The south-east of the island is now a Roman province, while certain states on the south coast are ruled as a nominally independent client kingdom by Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, whose seat is probably at Fishbourne near Chichester.

* 1262 – Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint ; he is best known for authoring the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.

The poem also claims Harold was buried by the sea which is consistent with William of Poitiers ' account and with the identification of the grave at Bosham Church which is only yards from Chichester Harbour and in sight of the English Channel.

* Chichester Cathedral is consecrated.

* Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint ; he is best known for authoring the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.

Similarly, it is known that Selsey was once a port town, with Selsey Abbey and a cathedra recorded until 1075, when the see of the Diocese of Sussex was moved inland to Chichester.

Cogidubnus / Togidubnus is known from a reference to his loyalty in Tacitus's Agricola, and from an inscription commemorating a temple dedicated to Neptune and Minerva found in nearby Chichester.

The county day, called Sussex Day, is celebrated on 16 June, the same day as the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint, whose shrine at Chichester Cathedral was an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.

It is also famous for being the start or finish point of various round-the-world record-breaking voyages, such as those of Sir Francis Chichester and Dame Ellen MacArthur.

The local MP is the Conservative Geoffrey Cox and the MEP local aristocrat Tory Giles Chichester.

Reflecting in 2011 on the sustained topicality of Yes, Minister / Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn noted that, since the opening of the stage show in Chichester, " all we've added is a couple of jokes about hacking and an extra joke about the Greeks at the time to a debt crisis.

The present day Clapham High Street is an ancient " diversion " of the Roman military road Stane Street, which ran from London to Chichester.

* Togidubnus, who lived at Fishbourne in Chichester, is the same man as Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, but there is some controversy as to how his name should be spelled.

* The snow queen is due to be performed by the world renowned Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in the Christmas of 2010 as part of the autum festival.

Millstream Chichester National Park is a national park in the Pilbara region of Western Australia ( Australia ), and is located north of the state capital, Perth.

By 1847 the canal, with the exception of the Chichester arm, had ceased to be navigable.

The canal was made up of three sections: a pair of ship canals, one on Portsea Island and one to Chichester, and a barge canal that ran from Ford on the River Arun to Hunston where it joined the Chichester section of the canal.

This section of the canal connected the river Arun at Ford to the junction with the Chichester arm of the canal.

In order to allow the passage of masted ships iron swing bridges were fitted to the Chichester and Portsea sections rather than the more typical hump back canal bridge.

The Chichester arm was transferred to the Chichester corporation in 1892, the same year in which the canal company was wound up ( the winding up order having been applied for in 1888 ).

Map of section of the canal between the Chichester branch and the River Arun

Further to the north lies the separate conservation area around Graylingwell Hospital, and to the south, the Chichester Conservation Area has been extended recently to include the newly restored canal basin and part of the canal itself.

Proposals for a canal linking Chichester directly to the sea go back as least as far as 1585 when an act of parliament was passed allowing a cut linking Chichester with the sea.

In 1817 it had been decided that the section between Chichester and Chichester Harbour, unlike the rest of the canal, would be built large enough to carry boats of 100 tons.

With the reason for its construction removed, the canal was not a commercial success, and apart from the Chichester section, it had fallen into disuse by 1847.

The canal was transferred to the Corporation of Chichester in 1892.

Westhampnett Rural District Council wanted to replace them with fixed bridges ( which would have blocked the canal ) but the Corporation of Chichester wanted to keep the canal open to traffic.