Rudgwick
| Rudgwick | |
| Sussex, Surrey | |
|---|---|
 Rudgwick Chapel | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ0833 |
| Location: | 51°5’35"N, 0°26’46"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,722 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Horsham |
| Postcode: | RH12 |
| Dialling code: | 01403 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Horsham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Horsham |
| Website: | Rudgwick.net |
Rudgwick is a village and parish in Sussex, spilling over into Surrey. The village is six miles west of Horsham on the north side of the A281 road.
The parish covers 6,394 acres. The 2001 Census recorded 2,791 people living in 1,013 households, of whom 1,425 were economically active. The 2011 Census recorded a population, including Tisman's Common of 2,722.[1]
History
Historically Ridgewick was an alternative form of the toponym.[2] Riccherwyk may be another, seen in 1377.[3]
The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity has a 12th-century Norman font of Sussex Marble.[4] The belltower is early 13th-century.[5] The church was largely rebuilt in the 14th century, when the north aisle was added and probably the present chancel was built.[5]
The parish has two 17th-century farmhouses. Garlands, a mile and a half south of the village, is early 17th-century and Redhouse Farm, a mile north of the village is late 17th-entury.[4] Naldrett House, a mile south of the village, is an 18th-century Georgian farmhouse of three bays and two storeys, built of brick with stone quoins.[4]
Rudgwick had a Dissenters' chapel by 1848.[2]
Rudgwick railway station on the Cranleigh Line was opened in 1865 and closed in 1965, as part of the Beeching cuts.
Education
Pennthorpe School is on in Church Street. Rudgwick Primary School is located in the community.[6]
The Rikkyo School in England, a Japanese boarding school, is also located in Rudgwick.[7]
Notable people
- Bertram Prance (1889-1958), artist and illustrator, lived in the village.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128082&c=Rudgwick&d=16&e=62&g=6474544&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1475414104281&enc=1. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lewis 1848, pp. 707–711.
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/466, in 1377, (Edward III); http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/E3/CP40no466/aCP40no466fronts/IMG_0025.htm; first entry
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 315.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nairn & Pevsner 1965, p. 314.
- ↑ "Contact Us." (Archive) Rudgwick Primary School. Retrieved on 8 January 2014.
- ↑ "INFORMATION IN ENGLISH." (Archive) Rikkyo School in England. Retrieved on 8 January 2014.
- ↑ Bertram Prance (1889-1958) - The Prance Family website
Sources
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- Lewis, Samuel, ed (1931). A Topographical Dictionary of England (Seventh ed.). London: Samuel Lewis. pp. 707–711.
- Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 314–315. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.