Partridge Green
| Partridge Green | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 High Street, Partridge Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ189190 |
| Location: | 50°57’32"N, 0°18’29"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Horsham |
| Postcode: | RH13 |
| Dialling code: | 01403 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Horsham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Arundel and South Downs |
Partridge Green is a village in Sussex. It I found on the B2135 road two and a half miles north-west of Henfield.
The village takes its name from a family called Partrych who were registered in the area in 1332. The name Partrych comes from the mediæval word Petriche, the word for a snarer of partridges. Jolesfield was the original mediæval settlement.
It was only in 1861 that the village started to develop with the arrival of the Horsham to Shoreham railway line. 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.
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