Places of interest in East Grinstead, RH13
Recently, the Southwater Village Centre has been renewed at a cost of £25 million, and the investment has attracted substantial local business interest, including the Co-Operative. The area now has a library, post office, mini-supermarket, bank, hairdressing facilities, a new pub, a florist and a bicycle shop.
There was a major expansion in housebuilding in the late 19th century. An area known as "New Town" (unrelated to the postwar developments) was created around the railway level crossing and down the Brighton Road;[25][28] the West Green area, west of the High Street on the way to Ifield, was built up; and housing spread south of the Horsham line for the first time, into what is now Southgate. The population reached 4,433 in 1901, compared to 1,357 a century earlier.[29] In 1891, a racecourse was opened on farmland at Gatwick. Built to replace a steeplechase course at Waddon near Croydon in Surrey, it was used for both steeplechase and flat racing, and held the Grand National during the years of the First World War.[4] The course had its own railway station on the Brighton Main Line.[30]
Upper Beeding is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the northern end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs four miles (6.4 km) north of Shoreham-by-Sea and has a land area of 1877 hectares (4637 acres). The site is a bridging point over the river: on the opposite bank are Bramber and Steyning, making the whole area somewhat built-up.
Another Bramber tourist attraction is St Mary's House, a late 15th century timber-framed house on a site associated with the Knights Templar, which was a monastic hostel for pilgrims and for monks who collected the tolls at Bramber bridge, a 170-foot (52 m) long bridge over the River Adur, incorporating a Chapel (dedicated to St Mary the Virgin) on its central span, though now reduced to a flat bridge of just a few feet over a tributary of the river, following silting, and a change of course. (This should not be confused with the nearby Beeding Bridge, a hump-back bridge which now spans the main course of the river). King Charles II is claimed to have stayed at St Mary's House during his escape to France after defeat at the Battle of Worcester. The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath, following Charles's supposed route to Shoreham-by-Sea, crosses the Adur at Bramber.
They had, however, only escaped for a time. The king caused them to be followed, and at length succeeded in having them seized, and sent to him. They were taken to Windsor Castle, where the family were shut up together in a room - the whole family (save one)-and were there starved to death by John's order. One son, William de Breose, who was married and had a son, escaped and fled to France but died shortly afterwards.
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