Muntham Court
Muntham Court was a country house and estate near a village of Findon, West Sussex, England. In the 1800s the estate covered . Following the death of Colonel U.O. Thynne in 1957 the estate measuring about was split up and auctioned off. In 1961 the house was demolished to make way for Worthing Crematorium that opened its doors on 5 January 1968. History Early history Muntham Court history dates back to early th century when the lands were held by Osward in 1066. Later in 1073 William de Braose had rights of free warren in the area and his family held 38 manors in Sussex. In 1086 it was held by Morin. In the 14th century the estate was divided in two, Itchingfield passed to the Marlott family. In 1371 Thomas de Mundham, son of Johanne is presumed to have built the first house on the site, later in 1372-1372 he gave all the rights to the Manor of Muntham to Thomas Cornwallis from London. th century In 1840 the estate was purchased by Thomas Fitzgerald of Binfield House, Be ...
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Findon, West Sussex
Findon is a semi-rural clustered village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Worthing. Governance An electoral ward in the same name. This ward stretches south west to Patching with a total ward population as at the 2011 census of 2,557. Geography The parish is on the slopes of and between two hills: Cissbury with its Iron Age hill fort to the east and a steep knoll Church Hill to the west. A further escarpment to the West and North stretches along the borders of the area. On the two named hills are remains of prehistoric flint mines where shafts were sunk about to reach the best seams of flint which were mined from radiating galleries. Near Muntham Court to the west of the village can be found a late Iron Age and Romano-British settlement site designated as a scheduled monument. The village is now bypassed by the A24 as it crosses the South Downs: the bypass was constructed in 1938. A modern settlement to th ...
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