Woodmancote, West Sussex

Part of the country

Woodmancote is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is 1.5 kilometers southeast of Henfield on the road A281. It should not be confused with the other village in West Sussex, which is also called Woodmancote and located near Chichester.

The scattered settlement has no village center, but it includes the hamlet of Blackstone. The Anglican parish church of St. Peter 's, which is on the A281 as a single building, not far from Woodmancote Place, a large house, the club serves as a country. The first church is dated to the 13th century, after the destruction of the church was rebuilt in 1868. There you will find a church hall and a public house, the Wheatsheaf Wheatsheaf Lane.

The Parish was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Odemancote. Two of the Lewes martyrs who were burned at the persecutions of Protestants by Mary I of England in 1556 at the stake, were called Thomas Harland and John Oswald. Both come from the place.

The Parish has an area of ​​849 hectares. In the United Kingdom Census 2001 478 inhabitants were counted living in 189 households. 248 residents went to an economic activity.