Rudgwick is a village and

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in the

Horsham Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...

District of

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, England. The village is west from

on the north side of the A281 road. The parish's northern boundary forms part of the county boundary between

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and

. The parish covers . The 2001 Census recorded 2,791 people living in 1,013 households, of whom 1,425 were economically active.. The 2011 Census recorded a population, including Tisman's Common of 2,722.

History

Historically Ridgewick was an alternative form of the

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. Riccherwyk may be another, seen in 1377. The

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of the

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has a 12th-century

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Sussex Marble Sussex Marble is a fossiliferous freshwater limestone material which is prevalent in the Weald Clay of parts of Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex in southeast England. It is also called Petworth Marble, Bethersden Marble or Laughton Stone in rela ...

. The

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is early 13th century. The church was largely rebuilt in the 14th century, when the north

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was added and probably the present

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was built. The parish has two 17th century farmhouses. Garlands, south of the village, is early 17th century and Redhouse Farm north of the village is late 17th century. Naldrett House, south of the village, is an 18th-century

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farmhouse of three

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and two storeys, built of brick with stone

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. Rudgwick had a

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' chapel by 1848.

Rudgwick railway station Rudgwick railway station was on the Cranleigh Line. It served the village of Rudgwick in West Sussex until June, 1965. History Rudgwick station opened in November 1865, one month after the rest of the stations on the line, due to objections ...

on the Cranleigh Line was opened in 1865 and closed in 1965, as part of the

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Education

Pennthorpe School is on in Church Street. Rudgwick Primary School is located in the community. The

Rikkyo School in England is a Japanese boarding primary and secondary school in Rudgwick, Horsham District, West Sussex. The school uses the Japanese curriculum,INFORMATION IN ENGLISH
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Rikkyo School in England is a Japanese boarding primary and secondary school in Rudgwick, Horsham District, West Sussex. The school uses the Japanese curriculum,

Notable people

Bertram Prance Bertram Stanley Prance (5 December 1889 – 9 August 1958) was a British artist, poster artist and illustrator who worked as a cartoonist for ''Punch'' magazine among others. Early life Prance was born in Bideford in Devon in 1889, one of f ...

(1889-1958), artist and illustrator, lived in the village.Bertram Prance (1889-1958) - The Prance Family website
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Eric Thompson Eric Norman Thompson (9 November 1929 – 30 November 1982) was an English actor, scriptwriter and stage director. He is best remembered for creating and performing the English narration for ''The Magic Roundabout'', which he adapted from ...

(1929–1982), creator of

The Magic Roundabout ''The Magic Roundabout'' is an English-language children's television programme that ran from 1965 to 1977. It used the footage of the French stop motion animation show ''Le Manège enchanté'' but with completely different scripts and characte ...

grew up in Rudgwick

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