Complex sentence: Sompting's Parish Hall was originally built as a reading room in 1889 by HP Crofts of Sompting Abbotts manor: his Crofts/Tristram family have owned farmland and built property in the parish, known as the Sompting Estate, since 1748.
Split into simpler sentences: Sompting's Parish Hall was originally built as a reading room in 1889 by HP Crofts of Sompting Abbotts manor. The Crofts/Tristram family have owned farmland and built property in the parish, known as the Sompting Estate, since 1748.