Wisborough Green
| Wisborough Green | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 The Cricketers Arms, Wisborough Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ049259 |
| Location: | 51°1’23"N, 0°30’18"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,414 (2011) |
| Post town: | Billingshurst |
| Postcode: | RH14 |
| Dialling code: | 01403 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Chichester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Horsham |
| Website: | wisboroughgreen.org |
Wisborough Green is a village in Sussex, sitting two miles west of Billingshurst, on the A272 road.
Newbridge, where the A272 crosses the River Arun a mile east of the village, was the highest point of the Arun Navigation, and the southern end of the Wey and Arun Canal. Newbridge Wharf(e), beneath the bridge, was an important part of the local transport system in the nineteenth century, before which, in the parish much further south, Pallingham Quay or Wharf was the limit of most navigation.[1]
Churches
The parish church, St Peter ad Vincula (St Peter in Chains) stands on higher ground near a small pond with pollarded willow trees. Its rare dedication in Britain is for the saint and Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome.
The village has a Methodist church and independent, family church that meets in the village hall.
About the village
Around the large village green, used for playing cricket and football are two pubs, the Cricketers Arms and the Three Crowns, and a village shop. The cricket pavilion on the green doubles as a social club. In an outland neighbourhood of the parish, the others being Burdocks and Strood Green, Newpounds, is public house The Bat & Ball, near Fishers Farm, a farm adventure park.[2]
Since the late 19th century a primary school has served the parish. The older building was closed in 1996 and was converted into houses. Since then the whole school has been on the same site, opposite.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wisborough Green) |
References
- ↑ P.A.L.Vine, London's Lost Route to the Sea, Redwood Books 1996
- ↑ Fishers Farm
