Dial Post | |
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Location within
West Sussex | |
OS grid reference | TQ155195 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Horsham |
Postcode district | RH13 8 |
Police | Sussex |
Fire | West Sussex |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The civil parish, where the lowest level political meetings are held, is West Grinstead in the north-east - its biggest settlement is 2 miles (3.2 km) east at Partridge Green. It has a population of around 100 based on the average headcount per inhabited dwelling. In 2001 the population of the civil parish as a whole was 2,934 [1]
The origin of the name is uncertain, Dial Post house, a large building dated 1712 post-dates the name of settlement as do Dial Post farm and Dial Post fields which were named in the early 18th century. [2] Dial Post farm comprised 300 acres (120 ha) in c. 1710 when it was leased for 21 years. [3] A public house, the Crown, is recorded as having been established as early as the 1870s. [4] The ruins of medieval Knepp Castle lie between Dial Post and Southwater by the A24. [5]
There is one public house, the Crown Inn, along with a café and barbecue at the Knepp Wilding Kitchen, a new development at Blakers Yard offering commercial space and dwellings, and a Garden Centre, but no church in Dial Post. The village centre retains four of the area's listed buildings, all of Grade II:
A new village hall, built with the help of a £50,000 grant from the Sussex Downs and Low Weald LEADER programme, was completed early in 2010. [10]
The ecclesiastical parish centres on an ancient Grade I listed church, St George in the middle of West Grinstead [11] [12] The parishioners have undertaken to maintain the chancel in exchange for the grant from the glebe estate in 1511 of the church house, see chancel repair liability. [12] Similarly, across that village centre is the listed Catholic Church of our Lady of Consolation and St Francis. [13]
Dial Post was originally on the main but picturesque A24 road linking London, Epsom, Leatherhead, Horsham and Worthing, between Southwater and Ashington, but a straighter bypass exists to the east.[ citation needed]
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Dial Post | |
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![]() Worthing Road, Dial Post | |
Location within
West Sussex | |
OS grid reference | TQ155195 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Horsham |
Postcode district | RH13 8 |
Police | Sussex |
Fire | West Sussex |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament | |
Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The civil parish, where the lowest level political meetings are held, is West Grinstead in the north-east - its biggest settlement is 2 miles (3.2 km) east at Partridge Green. It has a population of around 100 based on the average headcount per inhabited dwelling. In 2001 the population of the civil parish as a whole was 2,934 [1]
The origin of the name is uncertain, Dial Post house, a large building dated 1712 post-dates the name of settlement as do Dial Post farm and Dial Post fields which were named in the early 18th century. [2] Dial Post farm comprised 300 acres (120 ha) in c. 1710 when it was leased for 21 years. [3] A public house, the Crown, is recorded as having been established as early as the 1870s. [4] The ruins of medieval Knepp Castle lie between Dial Post and Southwater by the A24. [5]
There is one public house, the Crown Inn, along with a café and barbecue at the Knepp Wilding Kitchen, a new development at Blakers Yard offering commercial space and dwellings, and a Garden Centre, but no church in Dial Post. The village centre retains four of the area's listed buildings, all of Grade II:
A new village hall, built with the help of a £50,000 grant from the Sussex Downs and Low Weald LEADER programme, was completed early in 2010. [10]
The ecclesiastical parish centres on an ancient Grade I listed church, St George in the middle of West Grinstead [11] [12] The parishioners have undertaken to maintain the chancel in exchange for the grant from the glebe estate in 1511 of the church house, see chancel repair liability. [12] Similarly, across that village centre is the listed Catholic Church of our Lady of Consolation and St Francis. [13]
Dial Post was originally on the main but picturesque A24 road linking London, Epsom, Leatherhead, Horsham and Worthing, between Southwater and Ashington, but a straighter bypass exists to the east.[ citation needed]
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