Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NUTHURST

NUTHURST, a village and a parish in Horsham district, Sussex. The village stands near St. Leonard's forest, 2½ miles E by S of Southwater r. station, and 3½ S E of Horsham; and has a post-office under Horsham. The parish comprises 3, 260 acres. Real property, £3,083. Pop., 767. Houses, 138. The property is subdivided. Nuthurst Lodge is the seat of R. Henderson, Esq.; and Swallowfield, of H. S. Bigg, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £480.* Patron, the Bishop of London. The church is early decorated English; was considerably enlarged in 1856, at a cost of £2, 400; comprises nave and chancel, with porch and shingle spire; has a beautiful carved oak roof, and some handsome stained glass windows; and contains a very ancient, octagonal, Purbeck marble font. A chapel of ease is at Copsale; and there is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Nuthurst CP/AP       Horsham RegD/PLU       Sussex AncC
Place: Nuthurst

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