Edburton
Edburton | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | HENFIELD | |
Postcode district | BN5 | |
Dialling code | 01903 | |
Police | Sussex | |
Fire | West Sussex | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
Arundel and South Downs | ||
Edburton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Upper Beeding, in the Horsham district, in the county of West Sussex, England. It is on the road from Upper Beeding to Fulking. In 1931 the parish had a population of 83.[1] On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Upper Beeding.[2]
History
The village's name means Ēadburg's tūn, or settlement. Ēadburg is a woman's name,
The church supposedly founded by this Edburga c. 940 at Edburton collapsed and was rebuilt in the late twelfth century on the same foundations. This indicates that there was a substantial population living where there are only a few houses now. The situation at the foot of the north-facing South Downs escarpment provided a year-round supply of clean spring water from the chalk of the downs. The geology of Edburton varies. Farmers benefitted from the fertile and easily worked sandstones such as the Lower Greensands and the Grey Chalk of the Downs, but there are areas of sticky Gault Clay that are far more difficult to work and, as is often true in the Sussex Weald, these are where the best ancient woodlands can still be found.
Edburton Stream to Edburton Sands barns and brooks
The Edburton Stream is a chalk stream that runs by Edburton church to Edburton Sand barns and brooks (grid reference Tq 233 124). Lapwing traditionally breed in the fields around the stream. The brooks themselves are a wild place around a mile North of Edburton church with sedge and reed fen, willow carr, and fine oaks on the bank. There is a huge three-span girth pollard crack willow on the waterside. The fen has ragged-robin, greater tussock sedge, wood club rush, common sedge and both lesser and greater pond sedges. Downstream towards Catlands Farm are at least seven veteran crack and white willows. The area can support nightingale, cuckoos and other warblers.[6]
St Andrew's, Edburton parish church
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From 1705 to 1716, the rector of St. Andrew's was George Keith, a Scottish-born Presbyterian convert to Quakerism who once served as a leading minister of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania during the late 1680s and early 1690s. Keith's attacks on the political and religious authority of the colony's ruling Quakers initiated a serious schism within Pennsylvania Quakerism during that time. In 1693, after Keith was expelled from the Society of Friends, he published an antislavery tract excoriating Pennsylvania Friends for their involvement in slavery. Keith converted to Anglicanism in 1700 and returned to North America as the first missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1702–1704. Having travelled the world as a renowned theologian and missionary, Keith served out the remainder of his years as the rector of St. Andrew's in Edburton, although in his final six years of life he was so sick he often had to be carried to the church to perform his duties.[8]
References
- A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Edburton AP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ISBN 0198691033.
- ^ "Edburton". Towns and Villages Around Worthing. Visitor UK. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Elwes, Dudley George Cary; Robinson, Charles J. (1876). A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex. London: Longmans. p. 85. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ OCLC 1247849975.)
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- ^ Ethyn Williams Kirby, George Keith, (New York, 1943), 148-158.