Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of

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, England. The civil parish, where the lowest level political meetings are held, is

West Grinstead West Grinstead is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the B2135 road four miles (6.3 km) northwest from Henfield. It is within the ancient division of the Rape of Bramber The wester ...

in the north-east - its biggest settlement is east at Partridge Green. It has a population of around 100 based on the average headcount per inhabited dwelling. In 2001 the population of the civil parish as a whole was 2,934

History

The origin of the name is uncertain, Dial Post house, a large building dated 1712 post-dates the name of settlement as do Dial Post farm and Dial Post fields which were named in the early 18th century. Dial Post farm comprised in c. 1710 when it was leased for 21 years. A

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, the Crown, is recorded as having been established as early as the 1870s. The ruins of medieval

Knepp Castle The medieval Knepp Castle (sometimes referred to as 'Old Knepp Castle', to distinguish it from the nearby 19th-century mansion) is to the west of the village of West Grinstead, West Sussex, England near the River Adur and the A24 (). The castle ...

lie between Dial Post and Southwater by the A24.

Today

There is one public house, the Crown, but no church or shops. The village centre retains four of the area's

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s, all of Grade II: *New Lodge *Hazel Cottage *Alma Cottage *Dial Post House A new village hall, built with the help of a £50,000 grant from the Sussex Downs and Low Weald LEADER programme, was completed early in 2010. The ecclesiastical parish centres on an ancient Grade I listed church, St George in the middle of

The parishioners have undertaken to maintain the chancel in exchange for the grant from the glebe estate in 1511 of the church house, see

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. Similarly, across that village centre is the listed Catholic Church of our Lady of Consolation and St Francis.

Transport

Dial Post was originally on the main but picturesque A24 road linking

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, Horsham and

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Ho ...

, between

Southwater Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000. It is administered within Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. History One of the oldest b ...

and

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, but a straighter bypass exists to the east.

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{{authority control Villages in West Sussex Horsham District