Arundel is a market community as well as civil parish in a high vale of the South Downs, West Sussex, England. The much-conserved town has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic basilica. Although smaller in population than a lot of various other churches, Arundel has a gallery as well as comes 2nd behind much larger Chichester in its variety of provided structures in West Sussex. The River Arun goes through the eastern side of the town. Arundel was just one of the boroughs changed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. From 1836 to 1889 the town had its own District law enforcement agency with a strength of 3. In 1974 it became part of the Arun area, and also is now a civil parish with a community council. A selecting ward of the exact same name exists. This ward extends north to Houghton with a total population at the 2011 census of 4,298.