Lurgashall
Lurgashall Village Green
Lurgashall is located in West Sussex
Lurgashall
Lurgashall
Location within West Sussex
Area20.97 km2 (8.10 sq mi) [1]
Population609 2011 Census[2]
• Density28/km2 (73/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSU936271
• London40 miles (64 km) NE
Civil parish
  • Lurgashall
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPETWORTH
Postcode districtGU28
Dialling code01428
PoliceSussex
FireWest Sussex
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
Websitehttp://www.lurgashall.org/

Lurgashall is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, 6.5 km (4 ml) north west of Petworth, just inside the South Downs National Park. The population at the 2011 Census was 609.[2]

History

The church has had many additions over the years, it still retains some evidence of the original Saxon structure.

The village had become almost extinct in 1100, and finds no mention in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Norman Conquest, the King gave the Lurgashall area to a Norman family called Alta Rippa, who built a Manor House there in about 1100. The Manor House itself has not survived but the area that the estate occupied is now Park Farm, which gets its name from the Deer Park which the Alta Rippa family established in about 1200. The coming of the Manor revived the village's fortunes and it grew in importance throughout the feudal period.

An account of what it was like to live in the village in the early part of the 20th century is given in the book A view of Edwardian Lurgashall by H. S. Roots. It was re-published in 2000[3] and is based on the memories of a child called Harold who came to the village aged four in 1899. His father was the headmaster of the village school for 10 years and the book is an account of Harold's time growing up in the village and giving accounts of rural life as it was then in what was a fairly isolated village on the northern outskirts of Petworth.

There was at one time a mill which has been transferred to the Weald and Downland Living Museum, leaving just the mill pond.[4]

The Rev A. A. Evans wrote in 'A Countryman's Diary':"This was Lurgashall. have been to it several times since and with heightened appreciation... its beauty increases with familiarity, it endures, while the merely catchy and trivial wear away".

Sports and leisure

Lurgashall cricket club plays on the village green, and is often the guest team at the Ebernoe Horn Fair. Some of the sheep's horn trophies won by highest scoring batsmen[5] used to be displayed in the inn. There is a village hall for indoor activities such as bingo, parties and receptions.[6] There is a football pitch to the south-east of the green.

Lurgashall CC v Harting CC April 2014

Further reading

  • Oakland, Michael A Richer Dust 2007[7]

References

  1. ↑ "2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish" (PDF). West Sussex County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  3. ↑ A view of Edwardian Lurgashall, H S Roots, Window Press, Petworth. 2000
  4. ↑ "Lurgashall Design Statement". Chichester District Council. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Lurgashall winning teams with the Ebernoe horns
  6. ↑ Village Hall website
  7. ↑ Mystery of name on Lurgashall war memorial is finally solved
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