Mannings Heath
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Mannings Heath | |
Mannings Heath shown within West Sussex |
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OS grid reference | |
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Parish | Nuthurst |
District | Horsham |
Shire county | West Sussex |
Region | South East |
Constituent country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Police | Sussex |
Fire | West Sussex |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
European Parliament | South East England |
UK Parliament | Horsham |
List of places: UK • England • West Sussex |
Mannings Heath is a village in in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, on the A281 close to Horsham.
Mannings Heath has an Anglican church dedicated to The Good Shepherd, built in 1845, a pub, the Dun Horse Inn and a golf course.
Notable inhabitants include Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit of Chingford (a Cabinet minister in the Thatcher government), and famous television and film actor Peter Vaughan with his actress wife, Lilias Walker. The leader of the "black shirts" party, the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley also lived near the village.[citation needed]