Woodmancote, Henfield

Woodmancote
Sussex
Church of St. Peter
Location
Grid reference:	TQ235147
Location:	50°55’7"N, 0°14’40"W
Data
Population:	543  (2011)
Post town:	Henfield
Postcode:	BN5
Dialling code:	01273
Local Government
Council:	Horsham
Parliamentary constituency:	Arundel and South Downs

Woodmancote is a village in Sussex, a mile south-east of Henfield on the A281 road.

This one of two villages in Sussex of the same name (the other standing close to the Hampshire border).

This scattered community has no village centre. The parish includes the hamlet of Blackstone.

The parish church, St Peter's, stands alone beside the A281 road and dates to the thirteenth century, and was largely rebuilt in 1868. Close to the church is Woodmancote Place, a large house used as a country club. There is also a parish hall.

Woodmancote is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Odemancote". Two of the Lewes martyrs, burnt at the stake in the Marian Persecutions of 1556, Thomas Harland and John Oswald, came from Woodmancote.

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