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The Midhurst Society is for everyone who is interested in the history and heritage of Midhurst and the surrounding villages.
The first recording of the town of Midhurst was in the twelfth century but there is evidence of human activity dating back to prehistoric times, including the Bronze Age barrows that are visible on several nearby common areas.
The Midhurst Society aims to keep our history alive and bring it to the attention of residents and visitors through research, talks, exhibitions and publications.
Listing. Although the history of having an inventory of ancient and historical monuments can be traced back to the early 1900’s, it was the Town and Country Planning Acts after the second world war that local authorities were required to develop policies and proposals for the development of land. Simultaneously, powers were given to them to preserve buildings of architectural and historical interest. It was this power that created what we know today as the listed building process.
Grade II - Most listings are in this category. It means the buildings are of “special interest”. This listing grade includes cottages, houses and farmhouses, barns, public houses, and a former workhouse.
Grade II* - Buildings in this category means they are deemed “particularly important” and “of more than special interest”.
Grade I - A similar number are in this category which are of “exceptional interest”.
Midhurst buildings
There are 106 listed buildings in Midhurst and they will be recorded here in due course.
If you would like to help us add the information to this website, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
> Market Square / Edinburgh Square
Easebourne buildings
This section looks at listed buildings in Easebourne Parish including the village, Higher Easebourne (the area around the former King Edward VII Sanitorium), and village of Henley,
Phil Stringer and Chris Deadman have put the section together utilising some wonderful black & white photographs of buildings taken by John Harrison, when he and John Stringer (Phil's father) mounted an exhibition in the 1990s. Chris Deadman, took the current photos, (unless otherwise credited) and researched the back-stories of the properties and their occupants.
Please get in touch if you are able to add to this growing list of anecdotes and memories.
> Easebourne Lane - 7 listings
> Petworth Road - 9 listings
> Cowdray Park - 10 listings
> Easebourne Street(Lower North) -11 listings (divide between upper and lower is Wick Lane)
> Easebourne Street (Lower South) - 7 listings
> Easebourne Street (Upper North) - 7 listings
> Easebourne Street (Upper South) - 7 listings
> South Ambersham and Selham Road - 5 listings
> Easebourne (West) - 8 listings
> Henley - 8 listings
> Higher Easebourne - 7 listings
Heyshott
There are 32 listed properties or structures in Heyshott and they will be recorded here in due course. If you would like to help us add this information to the website we would be delighted to hear from you.
> Bex Mill