Woodmancote is a village

Village

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 and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Horsham

Horsham (district)

Horsham is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in Horsham. The district borders those of Crawley, Mid Sussex, Mole Valley, Chichester, Arun and Adur....

  District of West Sussex

West Sussex

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, England

England

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, located 1 mile (1.5km) southeast of Henfield

Henfield

Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and A2037. The parish has a land area of . In the 2001 census 5,012...

 on the A281 road. It should not be confused with the other West Sussex

West Sussex

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 village of Woodmancote

Woodmancote, West Sussex (Chichester District)

Woodmancote is a village in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the B2147 road 2 miles northeast of Emsworth. It should not be confused with the other West Sussex village of Woodmancote near Henfield....

 near Chichester

Chichester

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.

This scattered community has no village centre, but includes the hamlet

Hamlet (place)

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 of Blackstone

Blackstone, West Sussex

Blackstone is a hamlet in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Woodmancote to Twineham road 1.7 miles east of Henfield. The hamlet forms part of Woodmancote civil parish....

. The Anglican parish church, St Peter's, stands alone beside the A281 road, while not far away is Woodmancote Place, a large house used as a country club. Originally thirteenth century the church was largely rebuilt in 1868. There is a parish hall and one public house, the Wheatsheaf, in Wheatsheaf Lane.

The parish was recorded in the Domesday survey

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 of 1086 as Odemancote. Two of the Lewes

Lewes

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England and historically of all of Sussex. It is a civil parish and is the centre of the Lewes local government district. The settlement has a history as a bridging point and as a market town, and today as a communications hub and tourist-oriented town...

 martyrs, burnt at the stake in the Marian Persecutions

Marian Persecutions

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of 1556, Thomas Harland and John Oswald, came from Woodmancote.

The parish has a land area of 849 hectares (2096 acres). In the 2001 census 478 people lived in 189 households, of whom 248 were economically active.