Warnham is a
village
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and
civil parish
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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
West Sussex
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, England. The village is centred north-northwest of
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 ...
, from London, to the west of the
A24
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road.
[ Other named settlements within the parish include the ]hamlets
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of Goosegreen, Kingsfold and Winterfold as well as parts of Strood Green and Rowhook. The area is in the northwest of the Weald
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, a gently sloped remnant forest in southeast England and largely a plain
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by erosion
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.
The parish has a land area of 1980 hectares (4892 acres). In the 2001 census 1958 people lived in 784 households, of whom 935 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population was 2,068.[
Warnham has a number of shops, including a village store and butcher, two pubs ''The Sussex Oak'' and ''The Greets Inn'', a primary school and ]Warnham railway station
Warnham railway station serves the village of Warnham in West Sussex, England. It is measured from (although London-bound trains run to Victoria). Warnham is managed by Southern, which also operates all the services.
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lies nearly a mile away from the village, on the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines
The Sutton and Mole Valley lines were constructed between 1847 and 1868 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the London and South Western Railway and the LBSCR-sponsored Horsham, Dorking and Leatherhead Railway.
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. The station was built primarily for the brick works, which had some sidings until recently; it offers an hourly service to London Victoria with connections to London Waterloo. The adjacent level crossing
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is now permanently closed except for pedestrians and cyclists.
File:Warnham Railway Station, West Sussex. - geograph.org.uk - 28334.jpg, Warnham Railway Station
File:Warnhamwelcomesign.jpg, Warnham Welcome Sign
File:The Greets Inn - geograph.org.uk - 550377.jpg, The Greets Inn
File:WarnhamVillageGreen.jpg, Warnham Village Green
File:Warnham Manor - geograph.org.uk - 381615.jpg, Warnham Manor
History
The Anglican
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parish church
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, dedicated to St Margaret was built in the 14th century, but contains substantial later additions. St Margaret's is host to monuments belonging to at least three influential families, the Durford
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, the Lucas
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* Lucas (surname)
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and the Shelley family.[
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Warnham Court
Formerly Hollands Manor,[Warnham Court ] Warnham Court
Warnham is a village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. The village is centred north-northwest of Horsham, from London, to the west of the A24 road. Other named settlements within the parish include the hamlets ...
built in ashlar
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was built for Henry Tredcroft in 1828. Warnham Court School until August 1996 occupied the building, set in the listed Warnham Park immediately southeast of the village, with extensions and outbuildings by architect Arthur William Blomfield and his son Sir Arthur Blomfield.
The park grounds were laid out from the early 1830s, developed in the mid- and late 19th century by the landscape designer Henry, and later with a pinetum by Harry J. Veitch. Extended with a wild garden in the early 20th century, the gardens are surrounded by a 19th-century park.
Field Place
The early 19th-century poet and Romanticist
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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, husband of Mary Shelley
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was born at Grade I listed
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Field Place, a broad-fronted country house set on an estate/working farm, and was baptised there in 1792. As a child he rode every day for lessons with Reverend Edwards, Warnham's vicar
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and was visited by his cousin Thomas Medwin
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.
Localities
Kingsfold
Kingsfold is the northern settlement on the A24
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and Marches Road north of 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 ...
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border just south of site of the medieval Shiremark Mill, also known as Capel Mill and Kingsfold Mill which is 20 metres north of the border in Capel. The village has one pub
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, ''The Owl''.
Goosegreen or Goose Green
Goosegreen consists of a small group of farms and cottages between Warnham and Broadbridge Heath
Broadbridge Heath is a village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is about two miles (3 km) west from the historic centre of Horsham. The population of Broadbridge Heath has increased considerably in the fir ...
and includes four Grade II listed building
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s.
To the south of the hamlet is a cricket ground, home to the Broadbridge Heath Cricket Club, and tennis courts. Most of the houses are owned or were formerly owned by the Warnham Park Estate, whose offices are at Bailing Hill Farm. The artis
Joan Eardley
was born at Bailing Hill Farm on 18 May 2021. The family moved to Blackheath in 1926 and then to Scotland in 1939, where she was active for the remainder of her career.
Rowhook
Rowhook is a hamlet
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on the Broadbridge Heath
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to Ewhurst, Surrey
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The parish includes the smaller hamlets of Ellen's Green and Cox Green n ...
road northwest of 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 ...
.[ Rowhook lies on a junction of two Roman roads, one being ]Stane Street (Chichester)
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, the other an unnamed road which runs to the top of "Hurtwood" on the Greensand Ridge
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in Ewhurst.
From the junction of the A29 and the A281 to the south, the course of Stane Street passes through Waterland Farm, becomes a lane which joins the Rowhook Road next to the ''Chequers Inn'', a Grade II listed building and continues in a northeasterly direction towards Ockley in Surrey, where it once again joins the A29.
While divided by the parish boundaries of Warnham, Slinfold
Slinfold is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.
Geography
The village is almost west of Horsham, just off the A29 road.
The parish covers . The 2001 Census recorded a population of 1,647 people living ...
and Rudgwick
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