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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 towns include Crawley to the north-east and Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill to the south-east. It is the administrative centre of the Horsham (district), Horsham district. History Governance There are two main tiers of local government covering Horsham, at non-metropolitan district, district and non-metropolitan county, county level: Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. Much of the built-up area of Horsham is an unparished area, but some of the suburbs are included in civil parishes, notably North Horsham. The town is the centre of the Horsham (UK Parliament constituency), parliamentary constituency of Horsham, re-created in 1983. Jeremy Quin had served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Horsham since 2015, succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roffey
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 towns include Crawley to the north-east and Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill to the south-east. It is the administrative centre of the Horsham district. History Governance There are two main tiers of local government covering Horsham, at district and county level: Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. Much of the built-up area of Horsham is an unparished area, but some of the suburbs are included in civil parishes, notably North Horsham. The town is the centre of the parliamentary constituency of Horsham, re-created in 1983. Jeremy Quin had served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Horsham since 2015, succeeding Francis Maude, who held the seat from 1997 but retired at the 2015 general election. Quin was de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Horsham () is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament, centred on the Horsham, eponymous town in West Sussex. The seat was won in 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 by John Milne (British politician), John Milne of the Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats, making it the first time since 1876 that a non-Conservative Party candidate has held the seat. History Horsham has existed as a constituency for three distinct periods. It first sent members to Parliament in 1295. However, the constituency was abolished in 1918 to make way for Horsham and Worthing (UK Parliament constituency), Horsham and Worthing. In 1945 the constituency was recreated, until 1974 when Horsham and Crawley (UK Parliament constituency), Horsham and Crawley was created. In 1983 the constituency of Horsham was again created and has existed sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsham (district)
Horsham is a non-metropolitan district, local government district in West Sussex, England. It is named after the town of Horsham, which is its largest settlement and where the council is based. The district also includes the surrounding rural area and contains many villages, the largest of which are Southwater and Billingshurst. The district includes part of the South Downs National Park and part of the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of High Weald AONB, High Weald. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census the district had a population of 147,487. The neighbouring districts are Crawley, Mid Sussex District, Mid Sussex, Brighton and Hove, Adur District, Adur, Arun District, Arun, Chichester, Borough of Waverley, Waverley and Mole Valley. History Horsham itself had been an ancient borough from the thirteenth century, but lost its borough status in the 1830s. The town had been made a Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858, local government district in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawley
Crawley () is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a population of 118,493 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 Census. Southern parts of the borough lie immediately next to the High Weald National Landscape. The area has been inhabited since Three-age system, the Stone Age, and was a Wealden iron industry, centre of ironworking in the Iron Age and Roman Britain, Roman times. The area was probably used by the kings of Sussex for hunting.'The Kent and Sussex Weald, Peter Brandon, published by Phillimore and Company, 2003 Initially a clearing in the vast forest of the Weald, Crawley began as a settlement on the boundary of two of the sub-regions particular to Sussex, known as rape (county subdivision), Rapes, the Rape of Bramber and the Rape of Lewes. Becoming a market town in 1202, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Milne (British Politician)
John Laurence Milne is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham since 2024. He has also served as a member of West Sussex County Council since 2021 and Horsham District Council since 2019. Early life and education Milne grew up in Epsom and was educated at Glyn Grammar School. He was awarded a scholarship and studied at the University of Oxford, gaining a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English literature. Prior to entering politics, Milne worked as a creative director in advertising. Political career Milne was elected as a member of Horsham District Council for Roffey North in the 2019 election, and for Denne in the 2023 election. He served as deputy leader of the district council until his election to Parliament in 2024. Milne has also represented the division of Horsham Riverside on West Sussex County Council since the 2021 election, and has served as a member of Forest Neighbourhood Council. In the 2024 general elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 first two decades of the twenty-first century because of large scale housing development (79% from 2013 to 2019 according to Office For National Statistics). History The earliest evidence of human activity in what is now Broadbridge Heath dates to the Mesolithic period, in the form of flint implements found in the Wickhurst Green area. Later evidence of settlement in the parish includes several Iron Age roundhouses. The land now occupied by Broadbridge Heath was originally a detached portion of the parish of Sullington, part of a mediaeval system of transhumance whereby villagers from downland villages would drive their livestock into the Low Weald to graze on acorns, grass and beech mast.'The Kent and Sussex Weald, Peter Brandon, pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Quin
Sir Jeremy Mark Quin (born 24 September 1968) is a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham from 2015–2024. He served as Minister of State for Defence Procurement from February 2020 to September 2022 before briefly serving as Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire during which time he oversaw security arrangements for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. Following this, Rishi Sunak appointed him to be Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office. Quin resigned from Sunak's government in the November 2023 British cabinet reshuffle and was knighted in the 2023 Political Honours for public and political service. He became Chair of the Defence Select Committee in January 2024. Quin lost his seat in the 2024 General Election and was later that year appointed as a team member for the externally led Strategic Defence Review ordered by Keir Starmer. Early life and career Jeremy Quin was born on 24 September 1968 in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwater
Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000. It is administered within Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. History One of the oldest buildings in the parish is Great House Farmhouse, a listed building at Grade II* built in 1462 from a late medieval structure in the Tudor period just west of the town. In the early 19th century Southwater was predominately a collection of large estates divided into leased farms. Whilst mixed agriculture provided a lucrative industry for centuries, much of the population of Southwater originated from the workforce of the brick industry and the arrival of the railway, which opened in 1866. At the peak of production, the Southwater brickworks manufactured 18 million bricks a year, and employed 100 men. It was reported that Southwater bricks were used in the building of Christ’s Hospital, Victoria Station, RAAF Woomera Range Complex, Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Maude
Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham, (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2010 to 2015. He also served in several posts while the Conservatives were in opposition, notably as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Chairman of the Conservative Party. Maude was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Warwickshire from 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 to 1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 and then for Horsham (UK Parliament constituency), Horsham from 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 to 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015. Having served over 25 years on the frontbench in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, he stepped down at the 2015 general election and became a life peer. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Horsham
North Horsham is a civil parish in the district of Horsham in West Sussex, England, covering the northern part of the Horsham town area. According to the 2001 census the district had a population of 21,348, increasing slightly to 21,981 at the 2011 Census. Places within the parish include Roffey, Littlehaven, Holbrook, Old Holbrook & North Heath. Littlehaven railway station Littlehaven railway station serves the areas of Littlehaven, Horsham#Suburbs, Holbrook and Roffey in the northeast of the town of Horsham, West Sussex, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line, down the line from , measured via Redhill. History ... serves the parish. References External links Villages in West Sussex Horsham {{WestSussex-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Sussex
West Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Surrey to the north, East Sussex to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Hampshire to the west. The largest settlement is Crawley, and the county town is the city of Chichester. The county has a land area of and a population of . Along the south coast is a near-continuous urban area which includes the towns of Bognor Regis (63,855), Littlehampton (55,706), and Worthing (111,338); the latter two are part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area, which extends into East Sussex and has a total population of 474,485. The interior of the county is generally rural; the largest towns are Crawley (118,493) and Horsham (50,934), both located in the north-east; Chichester is in the south-west and has a population of 26,795. West Sussex contains seven local government Non-metropolitan district, districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county administered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
