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Warminghurst

Human settlement in England

Thakeham

District

Horsham

Shire county

West Sussex

Region

South East

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Arundel and South Downs

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50°56′25″N 0°24′42″W / 50.94025°N 0.41178°W / 50.94025; -0.41178

Warminghurst is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Thakeham, in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Ashington to Heath Common road 2.4 miles (3.9 km) northeast of Storrington. In 1931 the parish had a population of 93.^[1] On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Ashington.^[2]

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Warminghurst's Anglican church, was declared redundant in 1979.^[3] The Grade I-listed 13th-century building is now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust.^[4]

In 1676 Henry Bigland sold Warminghurst Manor to William Penn. Using this house, the Penn family were able to hold secret monthly meetings for Quakers from the local Horsham district and when Penn left England in 1682 for his first visit to America, he had many of these local Quakers join him. In 1707 he sold the house to James Butler who had it demolished and then erected another on the site, which was then subsequently demolished by the Duke of Norfolk in 1806. The large barn and farm buildings which survive today behind Park Lane likely do not date from Penn's house but from the early 18th century mansion of James Butler.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Population statistics Warminghurst CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
^ "Relationships and changes Warminghurst CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
^ "The Church of England Statistics & Information: Lists (by diocese) of closed church buildings. Diocese of Chichester" (PDF). Church of England. 21 February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
^ "The Holy Sepulchre, Warminghurst". Churches Conservation Trust. 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2010.