Wineham
| Wineham | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 The Royal Oak Inn, Wineham | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ236197 |
| Location: | 50°57’49"N, 0°14’28"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Henfield |
| Postcode: | BN5 |
| Dialling code: | 01444 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Horsham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Arundel and South Downs |
Wineham is a hamlet almost in the very centre of Sussex, strung along a single, narrow lane running north to south, two miles west of the A24 London to Brighton road, with Hickstead on the latter road to the east and Shermanbury as far to the west. The hamlet is about two and a half miles north-east of Henfield.
Historically the hamlet was called 'Wyndham'.[1].
There is one public house here, the Royal Oak.
At the south end of Wineham runs the River Adur.
History
The hamlet became known more usually as Wineham only in the 20th century, perhaps by assimilation to neighbouring Twineham. Its houses are strung out on both sides of the road but mostly on the west, those on the east being in Twineham parish.[1] Wyndham hospital, founded in the 13th century, may have been near that road a quarter of a mile north of Frylands Lane, where the site was recorded in the 1870s, or the same stretch further north, where hospital field lies behind the Royal Oak; no trace of the building has been found.[1] The hospital had a church and a graveyard, and was presumably the place in Wyndham where an inquisition was held in about 1300.[1]
Wyndham Pool, Wineham, is a small house of the late 16th century with a smoke bay into which a chimney was later built.[1]
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