Wineham is a

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mainly in the

Shermanbury Shermanbury is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A281 road approximately north of Henfield. The present day village consists mainly of a ribbon development of bungalows on the east side o ...

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(and the same ecclesiastical parish) of 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 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 ar ...

, England. It is south of the A272 road, and approximately northeast of

Henfield Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and A2037. Th ...

. Historically called WyndhamVictoria County History: Shermanbury
/ref> the settlement has one

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, the Royal Oak.West Sussex County Council
At Wyndham, usually called Wineham in the 20th century perhaps by assimilation to neighbouring

Twineham Twineham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located eight kilometres (5 miles) to the west of Burgess Hill. The civil parish covers an area of In the 2001 census 271 people lived in 100 hou ...

, the houses are strung out on both sides of the road but mostly on the west, those on the east being in Twineham parish. Wyndham hospital, founded in the 13th century, may have been near that road north of Frylands Lane, where the site was recorded in the 1870s, or the same stretch further north, where hospital field lies behind the Royal Oak; no trace of the building has been found. The hospital had a church and a graveyard, and was presumably the place in Wyndham where an

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was held in about 1300. Wyndham Pool, Wineham, is a small house of the late 16th century with a smoke bay into which a chimney was later built.

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* Horsham District Villages in West Sussex {{WestSussex-geo-stub