North Stoke, West Sussex
| North Stoke | |
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 North Stoke Farmhouse | |
| OS grid reference | TQ022107 |
| Civil parish | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
North Stoke is a small village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located 3.5 kilometres (2 miles) north of Arundel on a dead-end road from Amberley station 0.7 miles (1.1km) to the north.
The village is on a spur of slightly higher ground on the east bank of a loop of the River Arun, surrounded by water meadows. It is in the middle of the gap carved by the River Arun in the South Downs. Another small settlement on the west bank, South Stoke is about 1 kilometre to the south east and can be reached by a footbridge over the river. North Stoke, mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1087, is a medieval village which has lost most of its population. This could be because of plague in the Middle Ages or because the landowner preferred to graze the land with sheep. This has left a fine example of an Early English church which has been redundant since the early 20th century.[1] The dedication of the church had been long forgotten, but has recently been rediscovered from a scrap of a vellum letter dated 1275 from the Bishop of Chichester to King Edward I as The Virgin Mary[2]. The church is now maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust.
References
- ^ The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture
- ^ Caroline Lewis (11 December 2007). "Mystery of Sussex church solved by archaeology students". Culture24. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
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