The Sussex Oak, one of two popular pubs in Warnham village, West Sussex, England.

Commentary.

 

Like many villages in West Sussex and the South-East of England,

the village of Warnham partly grew to serve the needs

of wealthy Country Estates, between the 17th. And 19th. Centuries.

Warnham Court commands a 200-acre estate with gardens, lawns

pasture, rough grazing, woodland, lakes and arable fields,

for animal fodder and human consumption.

They would have needed gardeners, stable workers, farmers,

woodland workers, farriers, shepherds, maintenance workers,

maids, butlers, cleaners and kitchen staff to name but a few.

The mansion was built in 1825 and its grounds are even renowned

for herds of Fallow and Red Deer.

Indeed, venison would have been a regular on the menu,

as well as being sold to local butchers.

Still to this day, the village seems utterly rural,

even though it is barely two miles from Horsham town.

It now has two popular pubs, The Sussex Oak and The Greets Inn.

A classic butcher’s shop and village store stand just south

of the largely 14th. Century Parish Church of St. Margaret’s.

Dwellings are mostly individual and some date back to the 1700’s.

The old Primary School stands opposite the village green,

but has now been converted into several private, residential properties.

The busy A.24 by-passes the village half a mile to the north,

thus, keeping Warnham “relatively” quiet, in dealing with local traffic,

deliveries and visitors to its pubs and Church.

 

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