Partridge Green is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
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. It lies on the B2135 road north-west of
Henfield
Henfield is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at ...
. It is in the parish of
West Grinstead.
Partridge Green takes its name from a family called Partrych who were registered in the area in 1332. The name Partrych comes from the medieval word ''Petriche'', the word for a snarer of partridges. Jolesfield was the original medieval settlement and it was only in 1861 that the village started to develop with the arrival of the Horsham to Shoreham railway line (see
Steyning Line
The Steyning Line was a railway branch line that connected the West Sussex market town of Horsham with the port of Shoreham-by-Sea, with connections to Brighton. It was built by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and opened in 1861. ...
and
Partridge Green railway station).
St Michael and All Angels Church was built in the 1890 to keep up with the increase in population.
The settlement in what today is Partridge Green originated around the road junction of the B2135 and B2116 with several houses (in 1840 there were around six houses) and an inn called the Hare and Hounds, which was one of the meeting places for the
West Grinstead Hundred court between 1786 and 1802.
With the arrival of the railway, the inn was replaced with a new building called the Station Inn (later Station Hotel). After the closure of the railway in 1966 it was renamed The Partridge and in 2011 it was taken over by the
Dark Star Brewery, also based in the village. It is now a Free House and is no longer the Dark Star Brewery Tap, although it still sells Dark Star beers.
While being small, the village has several businesses: a pub, several shops, a fish and chip shop and a veterinary surgery. In addition
Downs Link, a bridleway popular with cyclists and walkers, runs along the side of the village.
also has a small station in the village.
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External links
Horsham District
Villages in West Sussex
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