Warnham is a

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and

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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

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, England. The village is centred north-northwest of

, from London, to the west of the

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road. The parish is in the north-west of the

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History

The

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, dedicated to St Margaret was built in the 14th century, but contains later additions. St Margaret's contains monuments belonging to at least three influential families: the Durford, the

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and the Shelley family.

Geography

Named settlements within the parish include the

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of Goosegreen, Kingsfold and Winterfold as well as parts of Strood Green and Rowhook. The area is in the north-west of the

, a sloped remnant forest in south-east England and largely a

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. The parish land area is 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 Court

Formerly Hollands Manor,Warnham Court

Warnham Court Warnham is a village and civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham district of West Sussex, England. The village is centred north-northwest of Horsham, from London, to the west of the A24 road (Great Britain), A24 road. The parish is in ...

built in

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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

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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

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame durin ...

, husband of

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was born at

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Field Place, a broad-fronted country house set on an estate/working farm, and was baptised there in 1792. A cousin was

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Kingsfold

Kingsfold is the northern settlement on the

and Marches Road north of

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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

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, ''The Owl''. A tune entitled 'Kingsfold' was adapted from a folk song by

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for the hymn 'I heard the voice of Jesus say' by

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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 f ...

and includes four Grade II

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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 artist Joan Eardley was born at Bailing Hill Farm on 18 May 1921; 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

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on the

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road northwest of

. Rowhook lies on a junction of two Roman roads, one being

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, the other an unnamed road which runs to the top of "Hurtwood" on the

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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,

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and

Rudgwick Rudgwick is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village is west from Horsham on the north side of the A281 road. The parish's northern boundary forms pa ...

, the majority of the hamlet and in particular, Rowhook Manor, which is a Grade II listed building of early medieval origin, is in Warnham civil parish.English Heritage marked Ordnance Survey map
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Community

Warnham village shops include a village store and butcher, two pubs ''The Sussex Oak'' and ''The Greets Inn'', a primary school and Warnham railway station lies nearly a mile away from the village, on the

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. The station was built primarily for the brick works, which had some sidings until recently; it provides an hourly service to London Victoria with connections to London Waterloo. The adjacent

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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

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