Cowfold
| Cowfold | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ213225 |
| Location: | 50°59’23"N, 0°16’21"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,904 (2011) |
| Post town: | Horsham |
| Postcode: | RH13 |
| Dialling code: | 01403 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Horsham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Horsham |
| Website: | http://www.cowfold-pc.gov.uk/ |
Cowfold is a village between Billingshurst and Haywards Heath in the very heart of Sussex. The village is to be found at the meeting of the A272 and A281 roads.
The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 1,904.
The village pub, the 'Hare and Hounds' is to the south of the village. The village has a shop, café, Indian restaurant, beauty salon, hairdressers, barbers, motor service centre and lawn-mower shop.
The parish church, St Peter's, is of the thirteenth-century.
At Parkminster, formerly Picknoll Farm, is St. Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster, the only post-Reformation Carthusian monastery in the United Kingdom.
Society and sport
The village has Scout groups and Guide groups, which meet in the local scout hut on the playing field.[1]
- Football: Cowfold F.C.
Village Hall
The Cowfold Village Hall opened in 1886 to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee, donated to the village by Frederick Du Cane Godman. The hall was built on an old saw pit owned by Fowlers, the local builders, as part of a deal between Godman and Fowlers. As part of the deal, Fowlers occupied a site owned by Godman near the 'Hare and Hounds' pub, and they are still situated there today.[2][3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Cowfold) |
References
- ↑ "Scouts and Guides" (in en-GB). 2014-03-12. http://www.cowfold-pc.gov.uk/scouts-and-guides/.
- ↑ "History" (in en-GB). 2016-03-26. http://www.cowfoldvillagehall.org/history/.
- ↑ "Fowler Bros Registration". https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00216546.