Midhurst, W Sussex - multiview postcard inc Cowdray Park, Easebourne c.1970s

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  • Picture / Image:  [Midhurst, West Sussex] - multiview: Cowdray Park Ruins / Easebourne Priory / North Street, Midhurst
  • Publisher: Bouldens of Southampton
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Midhurst (/ˈmɪdhɜːrst/) is a market town, parish^[3] and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother20 miles (32 km) inland from the English Channel, and 12 miles (19 km) north of the county town of Chichester.

The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as Middeherst, meaning "Middle wooded hill", or "(place) among the wooded hills". It derives from the Old English words midd (adjective) or mid (preposition), meaning "in the middle", plus hyrst, "a wooded hill".^[4]

The Norman St. Ann's Castle dates from about 1120, although the foundations are all that can now be seen. The castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denis, together with South Pond, the former fish-pond for the castle, are the only three structures left from this early period. The parish church is the oldest building in Midhurst.^[5] Just across the River Rother, in the parish of Easebourne, is the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House.

Cowdray Park is a country house at the centre of the 16,500-acre (6,700-hectare) Cowdray Estate in Midhurst, West Sussex.

The park lies in the South Downs National Park. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1908. It has a golf course, and it offers clay pigeon shooting and corporate activity days, as well as the more traditional activities of agriculture, forestry and property lets.

The estate also features the Cowdray House - the former home of the Montague family, built in 1542 and largely destroyed by fire in 1793. In 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £2.7m towards the cost of stabilising the ruins and they were opened to the public on 31 March 2007.^[2] The house is not open to the public.

In May 2009 it was announced that Lord Cowdray was seeking a business partner to turn the house into a country house hotel, but the project was abandoned when Cowdray failed to find a partner.^[3] It was also announced that Cowdray will be moving to another family property at Fernhurst.^[4] The following year, in September 2010, it was announced that Cowdray House was put on the market for £25 million.^[5] Michael Pearson, the fourth Viscount Cowdray, claimed that he did not want his son to inherit the burden of maintaining the house.^[3] However, as of September 2011, Lord Cowdray has not found a buyer for the house, which would not include the wider estate, including the Polo Club.^[3] The collection housed within Cowdray Park was auctioned in situ by Christie's over three days, between September 13 and 15 2011.^[6]Among the objects sold were furniture, silver, paintings, tapestries and porcelain, with a portrait previously identified as Queen Elizabeth I (but now considered more likely to be Catherine Howard, née Carey, Countess of Nottingham) achieving the highest auction price of £325,250.^[7] In total, the auction raised £7.9 million.^[7]

Easebourne Priory was a priory in Easebourne, West Sussex, England.

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built as an Augustinian nunnery for a prioress and ten nuns. It was founded before 1238 by the de Bohun family of St. Ann’s Hill in nearby Midhurst, probably by John de Bohun who fought at Crecy.^[1][2]

It may have been refounded in the 15th century and became Benedictine.^[3]

In 1536, following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Easebourne Priory was granted to William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, along with other properties,

Claustral remains are now incorporated into a Grade I listed house built on the south side of St Mary's church.^[4][3] The restored refectory is now in parochial use.^[1]