Egdean (pronounced Egg-deen) is a small village in the
Chichester
Chichester () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publi ...
district
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of
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ...
, England. It lies just off the
A283 road 1.7 miles (2.8 km) southeast of
Petworth. It is in the civil parish of
Petworth.
In earlier centuries a horse fair was held at Egdean. It was one of the last occasions on which the
3rd Earl of Egremont was seen out in public before he died in 1837. The earl gave a £20 prize for the best three-year-old colt or filly.
The
Anglican church of St Bartholomew, dating from the 16th century, is in regular use.
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Villages in West Sussex
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