Hardham
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  Hardham shown within West Sussex |
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| Parish | Coldwaltham |
| 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 | Arundel and South Downs |
| List of places: UK • England • West Sussex | |
Hardham is a small village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A29 road 1.2 miles (2km) southwest of Pulborough.
The small anglican parish church dedicated to St Botolph has some of the oldest surviving wall paintings in the country, including an image of St George slaying a dragon. The village is on the line of the Roman road Stane Street[1], which changes direction here, leaving the modern A29 road which has followed it from Capel to head south west to Bignor and Chichester. The Roman Greensand Way from Lewes joined Stane Street here and remains of a Roman way station have been found. In the late eighteenth century a canal tunnel was built on the Arun Navigation to avoid a large loop of the River Arun[2]. The railway line from Pulborough to Midhurst passed over the tunnel, and when the canal closed the railway company broke into the tunnel and filled that part of it under the rails with chalk. Standing on higher ground on the south side of the village Hardham Priory, the Priory of St. Cross, was an Augustinian monastery, established in the mid thirteenth century [3].
[edit] References
- ^ Roman Britain website
- ^ P.A.L.Vine, Images of England. The Arun Navigation Tempus Publishing Limited 2000 ISBN 0 7524 2103 4 pp76-82.
- ^ British History Online; Hardham Priory
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