Tillington, W Sussex - All Hallows Church - art postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  All Hallows Church, Tillington, West Sussex - artist drawn card
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Tillington is a village and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England located one mile (1.6 km) west of Petworth on the A272. The parish includes the hamlets of Upperton, River, and River Common.

The land area is 1,416 hectares (3,500 acres). Approximately 500 people live in 227 households in the parish (2001 census).^[1] Upperton and Tillington are designated Conservation Areas. There are many old dwellings, including medieval timber framed houses, with one third of the buildings in the parish being grade II listed.^[2] Pitshill is a Georgian mansion standing at the head of a valley between Upperton and River. All Hallows Church with its unusual Scots crown tower is a landmark when approaching from Petworth, and is floodlit at night.^[3] It was painted by J M W Turner and John Constable. The church, first recorded in 1100 was mostly rebuilt and enlarged between 1807 and 1837, but retains romanesque sculpture and a plain eight-sided twelfth century stone font.^[4] Opposite the church is the historic Horseguards Inn, thought to get its name from the cavalry who stayed there overnight while escorting gold bullion from London to the navy at Portsmouth^{[citation needed]}.

The first reference to Tillington is in a title deed of 960^{[citation needed]}, as Tullington, the farm or village founded by Tulla. Upperton (Upper Village) is first mentioned in 1191. Grittenham (Great Farm Enclosure), once a much larger settlement than today, is first mentioned in the Domesday Book, 1086, as Greteham. River (On the Slope) has also been called Treve through most of its history.

During the 16th century a great deal of common grazing land east of Upperton was illegally enclosed to make a deer park for Petworth House causing impoverishment of the farmers of Upperton. This resulted in a long running legal case against the Earl of Northumberland, owner of Petworth, described by Peter Jerrome in his book Cloakbag and Common Purse. The ""common purse"" was a fighting fund raised by the tenants to fund legal action in the Chancery court; the ""clokebagge well fraught with money"" was a large bribe to the tenants' leader to drop the case, after previously having had him press ganged into the army and sent to fight ""beyond seas"" which probably meant in Ireland, which he survived.^[5][6]

 sandstone ridge with an elevation of approximately 170 metres (560 ft) runs east to west across the centre of the parish, from Upperton to River. The north facing scarp slope falls steeply to the low weald where the soils are a mix of weald clay with alluvial soils. This northern part of the parish is well wooded, the farmland being a mix of pasture and arable. Ironstone deposits on the lower slopes of the escarpment have been quarried in the pre-industrial era leaving parts of River Common pitted and scarred, now overgrown by naturally regenerated broadleaved woodland. To the south of the sandstone ridge the land slopes gently down to the River Rother having very fertile free draining soils on greensand which are divided into large fields and mostly used for intensive vegetable production. Some of the upper slopes have recently been planted with grape vines.

type=printed

city/ region=tillington

period=post-war (1945-present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)