Bognor Regis

Bognor Regis, also known as Bognor, is a town, seaside resort and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England, 56 miles south-west of London, 24 miles west of Brighton and 6 miles south-east of Chichester. Sir Richard Hotham developed a resort there in the late eighteenth century on an undeveloped sand and gravel coastline, and growth became rapid after the railway came in 1864. King George V spent three months recuperating in the area in 1929, and the town took the name Bognor Regis by royal consent that year. the Butlins holiday business has been present since the early 1930s, first with an amusement park and zoo and then a holiday camp, and the built-up area, including Felpham and Aldwick, had 63,855 residents at the 2011 census.