20-595: 50°59′08″N 0°36′27″W / 50.98556°N 0.60750°W / 50.98556; -0.60750 Petworth Cottage Museum , at 346 High Street, Petworth , West Sussex is a Leconfield Estate worker's cottage. It has been restored and furnished as it might have been in about 1910 when the occupier was a Mrs. Mary Cummings, an Irish Catholic. Mary worked as a seamstress at nearby Petworth House and at home. The collection also includes two oil on canvas paintings by an unknown artist. These show an exterior and an interior view of Petworth Gaol , or House of Correction, in
40-632: A community based station. The town is served by the local newspaper, Midhurst and Petworth Observer , which publishes on Thursdays. The town's amateur dramatics group is known as the Petworth Players, and their past productions have included The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , and The Sleeping Beauty . Petworth has also been the home to the Petworth Town Band for over 100 years. Petworth House
60-638: A right to sell their wares at the fair as Petworth was in the Honour of Arundel. The village of Byworth in the parish is just to the east of Petworth, across the Shimmings valley. Further east still, on the border with Fittleworth, is Egdean , which has a small church dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Petworth is twinned with Ranville in Normandy , France and San Quirico d'Orcia in Tuscany , Italy. Ebernoe Ebernoe
80-523: A tree and landed on the Petworth Boys' School in North Street, killing 28 boys, the headmaster, Charles Stevenson, and assistant teacher Charlotte Marshall. An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes Fittleworth and Ebernoe with a total ward population as taken at the 2011 census of 4,742. The railway line between Pulborough and Midhurst once had a station at Petworth , but
100-654: Is a hamlet and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex , England, and 4 miles (6 km) north of Petworth near the A283 road. The parish has a land area of 3,060 acres (1,238 ha). In the 2001 census 234 people lived in 102 households of whom 107 were economically active. The 2011 Census indicated a population of 213. Hidden from the road by trees is the Anglican parish church, built from locally made brick in
120-513: The A283 Milford to Shoreham-by-Sea road. The parish includes the settlements of Byworth and Hampers Green and covers an area of 2,690 hectares (6,600 acres). Twelve miles (21 km) to the south west of Petworth along the A285 road lies Chichester and the south-coast. In 2001 the population of the parish was 2,775 persons living in 1,200 households of whom 1,326 were economically active. At
140-633: The 1860s. The museum was opened by Lord and Lady Egremont in May 1996 and is run by an independent charitable trust, the Petworth Cottage Trust. Volunteer staff provide information and guided tours. Petworth Petworth is a town and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex , England. It is located at the junction of the A272 east–west road from Heathfield to Winchester and
160-454: The 2011 Census the population was 3,027. The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having 44 households (24 villagers, 11 smallholders and nine slaves) with woodland and land for ploughing and pigs and 24 acres (9.7 ha) of meadows. At that time it was in the ancient hundred of Rotherbridge . Petworth is the location of the 17th-century stately home Petworth House ,
180-572: The Herbert Shiner School took pupils in years 6, 7 and 8 before they moved on to Midhurst Grammar School but this closed when the new Midhurst Rother College was opened. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian . Television signals are received from the Midhurst TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Sussex , Heart South , Greatest Hits Radio West Sussex , V2 Radio and Radio Kirdford,
200-717: The Sussex Wildlife Trust. Among its ancient woodland, glades and ponds it supports a diversity of plants and animals, including 14 out of 16 species of bat which occur in the UK, including the rare Bechstein's and Barbastelle bats. Adjoining farmland has been purchased with a grant from Restore UK which will be allowed to revert to pasture woodland over a long period with managed grazing by cattle. The Barbastelle bats need old dying trees with loose bark for their roosts and travel great distances along traditional flight lines to feed over damp meadows, which may be as much as 20 kilometres from
220-575: The cottage was the home of Mrs. Cummings, a seamstress, whose drunkard husband had been a farrier in the Royal Irish Hussars and on the Petworth estate. Petworth fell victim to bombing in the Second World War on 29 September 1942, when a lone German Heinkel He 111 , approaching from the south over Hoes Farm, aimed three bombs at Petworth House. The bombs missed the house, but one bounced off
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#1733084819912240-535: The fair was then a nine-day event. Local tradition tells of a lost charter for the fair, but this is myth because it was determined by travelling justices of King Edward I in 1275 that the fair, then lasting eight days, had already been in existence since time immemorial and no royal charter was needed. At that time tolls on stalls for the sale of cattle provided an income for the Lord of the Manor . The traders of Arundel claimed
260-526: The grounds of which (known as Petworth Park) were the work of Capability Brown . The house and its grounds are now owned and maintained by the National Trust . In the early 17th century, the question of Petworth's status as an honour or a town came up when the Attorney General charged William Levett of Petworth, Gent., son of Anthony Levett, with "having unlawfully usurped divers privileges within
280-428: The line was closed to passenger use in 1955, and finally to freight in 1966, though the station building survives as a bed and breakfast establishment. Public transport access is currently provided by an hourly bus between Midhurst and Worthing , operated by Stagecoach South . Petworth Primary School is the only school in the town. The school is at the south of the town and takes pupils up until Year 6. Until 2008
300-422: The market square is closed off to traffic so that a fun fair can be held. This is the modern survival of an ancient custom. In earlier centuries the fair lasted several days and may have been wholly or partly held on a field on the south side of the town called fairfield. The London Gazette of November 1666 announced that a fair would not be held that year because of plague still infesting the county, and shows that
320-547: The nineteenth century. Walled to exclude rabbits the churchyard is a haven for wild flowers. Adjoining the church there is another old building, the Old Schoolhouse. There is a cricket field where the village team plays and through which a road runs. This is also the venue for the Ebernoe Horn Fair held every 25 July. Ebernoe Common is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest managed by
340-469: The roost, in the Arun and Rother valleys. Local landowners are being encouraged to maintain and enhance continuous tree cover along these routes so that the bats can travel out on summer evenings avoiding predation by sparrow hawks. The ponds on the common were constructed for the iron industry and there is also an old brick works which is thought to have been supplying bricks to Petworth House. Ebernoe Furnace Pond
360-455: The town of Petworth, which was parcel of the Honour of Arundel." William Levett's son Nicholas became rector of Westbourne, West Sussex . Leconfield Hall , which was formerly Petworth Town Hall, was completed in 1793. Another historic attraction in the town, Petworth Cottage Museum in High Street, is a museum of domestic life for poor estate workers in the town in about 1910. At that time
380-453: Was established in 1594 by the Smythes of Wassell to make pig iron for Wassell Forge, at Kirdford. The waters are hidden in woodland on the large Ebernoe Common, an ancient woodland and nature reserve managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust. Wassell Mill was formerly a corn-mill and prior to the mid-17th century was a forge for iron working. A stream was dammed to give water power and this arrangement
400-477: Was one of the main locations for the 2014 Mike Leigh film Mr. Turner , which put Timothy Spall as the artist Turner in the actual locations where he painted in the early 19th century. The Petworth Society was founded in 1974 to protect the character and amenities of the parishes of Petworth and Byworth. Newlands House Gallery , a gallery of modern and contemporary art, photography and design, opened in 2020. On 20 November ( St. Edmund 's day) each year,
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