Amberley, W. Sussex - Houghton Bridge - art postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Houghton Bridge, Amberley, West Sussex - drawing by R. H. Penton
• Publisher:  Vulcan Press (the RAP Co. Ltd), London
• Postally used:  no
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Amberley is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

Amberley is situated at the foot of the South Downs. Its neighbours are Storrington, West Chiltington and Arundel. The village is noted for its many thatched cottages. The house named ""The Thatched House"" is one of the village's few non-thatched houses.

One of the attractions in Amberley is Amberley Working Museum.

Amberley has its own railway station on the Arun Valley Line, with regular services to Bognor Regis, Portsmouth and London.

To the north of the village is the tidal plain of the River Arun, known as Amberley Wild Brooks. This wetland area is a Site of Special Scientific Interest which floods in winter and is known for its wildfowl. Good views can be had from the Sportsman Pub at the east end of the village, known as crossgates. The Black Horse in the centre of the village often has Morris Dancing in Summer. Amberley also has a castle, which is now a Hotel. The 'castle' is in fact a fortified manor House next to which is a Norman Church, the Parish Church of St Michael.

Arnold Bennett stayed in the village for eight weeks in 1926 and this stay is documented in his journals.^[2] During May–June 1926, he wrote the last two thirds of The Vanguard in 44 days, noting I have never worked more easily than in the last six weeks. He also met John Cowper Powys who walked over the Downs from Burpham to visit him.^[3] Frank Swinnerton lived in Cranleigh and had links with Bennett, subsequently selecting and editing his Journals. Swinnerton's 1914 novel On the Staircase has a character named Amberley. Arthur Rackham is commemorated in a wall plaque in the churchyard. The lettercutting is by John Skelton. Rackham and his artist wife Edyth lived at Houghton House on the other side of the valley throughout the 1920s. In 1932, the film The Man from Toronto starring Jessie Matthews and Ian Hunter was filmed here.

The largest memorial in the churchyard is to Edward Stott RA^[4] who lived in Amberley from 1889 until he died in 1918. He is still famous for his rural scenes, many sketched close to Amberley. His monument has a bust on top carved by the sculptor Francis Derwent Wood. Wood's nearby grave is marked with one of his own works, a pieta in bronze. Inside the church is a semi-circular stained glass window to Stott, designed by Robert Anning Bell. Other windows have inscriptions by Eric Gill and his assistant Joseph Cribb. In the church, south of the chancel arch are 12th or 13th century wall-paintings, depicting scenes from the Passion Cycle.^[5]

Amberley has a working pottery and is also home to a ceramics designer.^[6] Amberley Working Museum was used as a set location for the James Bond film A View to a Kill as ""Mainstrike Mine"".

The village's name was used as an inspirational name by Michael Jupp for the character of Amberley in The Dreamstone.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=sussex

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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