Halnaker is a hamlet in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the

A285 road List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the ...

3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast of Chichester, where it follows the line of the

Roman road Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...

to London called Stane Street. There is a pub, ''The Anglesey Arms''.

Goodwood House Goodwood House is a country house and estate covering in Westhampnett, Chichester, West Sussex, England and is the seat of the Duke of Richmond. The house was built in about 1600 and is a Grade I listed building. Description The house and its ...

is southwest of the village. North of the village Halnaker Windmill stands on 128 metre/420 feet high Halnaker Hill, a southern outpost of the South Downs. It is in the civil parish of

Boxgrove Boxgrove is a village, ecclesiastical parish and civil parish in the Chichester District of the English county of West Sussex, about north east of the city of Chichester. The village is just south of the A285 road which follows the line of the R ...

History

Halnaker is mentioned in the Domesday Book under the Hundred of

, Sussex, as having 44 households in the lands belonging to Earl Roger. The book which was written in 1086 said: The place was in medieval times also referred to as Halfnaked. Kelly's Directory of 1867 says that Boxgrove manor-house

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