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Opposite was a bakery.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gibbons-mill.jpgGibbons Mill, Rudgwick.Gibbons Mill and the Mill House2025-04-09T10:56:04+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/stran-smiths-history-of-rudgwick/pallinghurst-rikkyo-school/2024-09-20T08:45:28+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/2014/03/01/rudgwick-brickworks/2024-04-08T19:58:57+00:00monthlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/people-from-rudgwicks-past/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1969-steve-hyde-2.png1969 Steve Hyde (2)https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1969-steve-hyde-1.png1969 Steve Hyde (1)https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1980-rudgwick-primary-school-centenary.jpg1980 Rudgwick Primary School CentenaryRudgwick School centenery photo, at the new school in Tates Way, 1980 (should have been 1977!)https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1972-old-sch-fr-re-john-belchamber.jpg1972 old sch Fr Re John Belchamber1972, at the very end of the old school's history, Mr Guest headmaster 1954-1970shttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rudgwick-school-wartime-dinners-1940s-bone.jpgRudgwick School wartime dinners 1940s (Bone)Rudgwick School, wartime dinnerhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/staff-1952.jpgstaff 1952Rudgwick school staff, 1952, headmaster Mr Denton centre (1948-?), Miss Tuff 2nd righthttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/miss-tuffs-infants-class-c1949-rudgwick-club.jpgMiss Tuff's Infants Class c1949, Rudgwick ClubMiss Tuff's infants met at the Social Club, Loxwood Rd, as school numbers increased, c1949https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/school-photo-joyce-bone-kings-head-field.jpgSchool photo, Joyce Bone, Kings Head fieldRudgwick School filedwork, possibly Lynwick, 1940shttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rudgwick-school-football-team-1948-9.jpgRudgwick School Football Team 1948-9Rudgwick School football team, 1948-9https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rudgwick-school-girls-in-c1944.jpgRudgwick School, girls in c1944Rudgwick School, senior girls ( children spent their whole school life in the village school in Bucks Green2023-11-28T11:02:38+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/stran-smiths-history-of-rudgwick/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1777-copy-andrews-drury.jpg1777 Copy Andrews & Druryhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1907.jpg19072025-11-11T11:35:37+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/events-news/2631-2/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/10.-new-bridleway-signs-at-crossways-241120.jpg10. new bridleway signs at crossways 241120https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/site-of-clay-pit-satellite-image.pngsite of clay pit satellite image2023-05-09T13:17:54+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/rudgwick-landscapes/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_20220505_0002.jpgIMG_20220505_0002https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_20220505_0001.jpgIMG_20220505_0001https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_20220505_0002-2.jpgIMG_20220505_0002 (2)https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/view-from-rudgwick-ridge.jpgview from Rudgwick RidgeThe view south from the ridge in Autumn2022-09-03T19:56:42+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/about/membership/2026-03-11T17:19:50+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/walks/rudgwick-walks-pub-walks-to-download/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-7-map-p52.jpgWalk 7 map p52Walk 7 map onlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-6-map-p44.jpgWalk 6 map p44Walk 6 map onlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-5-map-36.jpgWalk 5 map 36Walk 5 map onlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-4-map-p26.jpgWalk 4 map p26Walk 4 map onlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-3-map-p20.jpgWalk 3 map p20Walk 3 map onlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-2-map-p12.jpgWalk 2 map p12Walk 2 map onlyhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/walk-1-map-p6.jpgWalk 1 map p6Walk 1 map only2022-02-24T15:09:01+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/stran-smiths-history-of-rudgwick/great-war-project/rudgwick-in-the-great-war/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/img_2900.jpgIMG_29002019-09-22T14:45:30+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/stran-smiths-history-of-rudgwick/great-war-project/2019-09-22T13:36:51+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/old-rudgwick/railway-rudgwick/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nash.jpgNashrhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/baynards_tunnel.jpgBaynards_Tunnelthe Rudgwick (southern) entrance to Baynards Tunnel. The Downs Link by-passes this over the hill.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rudgwick_double_bridge.jpgRudgwick_Double_BridgeThe Rudgwick double bridge over the Arun, now part of the Downs Linkhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/z-012.jpgz 012The Downs Link long-distance path is now a haven of tranquiity through the villagehttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rudgwick-public-sector-medical-centre-1.jpgRudgwick public sector, medical centre 1Rudgwick Medical Centre is now on the site of the stationhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ticket-horsham-to-rudgwick-1963.jpgticket Horsham to Rudgwick 1963Many different tickets were available - 1st, 2nd, 3rd class, Privilege 1st, dog, luggage, platform etchttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1963-prices.jpg1963 pricesFares, 1963!https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rudgwick-signal-box-21.jpgRudgwick Signal Box 2Signal box and Church Street bridgehttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/pamlin-19591.jpgPamlin 1959Station forecourt, 1959https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6-rudgwick-station-a-train-in.jpg6. Rudgwick Station, a train in'A train just in', at the Martlet Hotel, opened before the railway, offered to let in 1864, first named Travellers' Inn or Railway Inn, depending on source. Martlet must certainly refer to James Braby's arms, Sussex martlets, as he had it built. The fly proprieter, George Standing lived across the road at Dale Cottage. 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A new school in the village opened in 1972, with infants at the old school for a few more years. The building is now a private museumhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/warhams-pre-1914.jpgWarhams, pre-1914Near the river, and off Naldretts Lane, is Warhams, the oldest building in the parish, and for miles around. Warhams has at its extended core a fine example of early C13th timber work. it is an aisled hall house possibly a hunting lodge for the manor of Pulborough, as such one of the oldest continuously inhabited timber-framed houses in the contryhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wanford-mill-house-1930.jpgWanford [Mill] House 1930from the gaskyns sale catalogue, 1930, the Mill House at Wanford clearly shows its older Georgian frontage and Victorian wing behindhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/pw-ernest-buss-franktonhook.jpgPW Ernest Buss, Franktonhookat Franktonhook there is traffic island, on which several businesses have thrived, icluding a garage and this little shoemaker's hut, long gone.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bucks-green-on-the-guildford-road.jpgBucks Green 'on the Guildford Road'These Edwardian cottages dominate the south side of the road, and have little altered frontages today.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mill-hill-cottage-green-lanes.jpgMill Hill Cottage (Green Lanes)Green Lanes (once called Mill Hill Cottage) is further east, but it too was once tea rooms on the main road, now much altered2023-12-20T22:12:14+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/people-from-rudgwicks-past/notable-individuals/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mrs-grinstead-landlady-of-the-plough-inn.jpgMrs Grinstead landlady of the Plough InnMrs Grinstead was landlady of The Plough Inn, Rudgwick Streethttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/dr-f-boxall-at-church-hill.jpgDr F Boxall at Church HillFrank Boxall's transport before he purchased a motor carhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/the-ridge-boxall-family-1970s.jpgThe Ridge, Boxall family, 1970sRidge, the Boxall maternity home, built 1927, photo 1975 - later demolishedhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/boxall-family-1915-norman-ken-gladys-eileen-muriel-joan.jpgBoxall family 1915, Norman Ken Gladys Eileen Muriel JoanDr Frank Boxall, GP, 1915, wife Mary, children Norman, Ken, Gladys, Eileen, Muriel, Joanhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1885-christopher-walker.jpg1885 Christopher WalkerChristopher Walker, Halifax woollen miller, lived Arun Bank (Rudgwick Grange) 1889-1902, founder of the Arundene Lane orchard and glasshouse industry, now continued by Barnsfold Nurserieshttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/920-p-58-james-braby.jpg920 p 58 James BrabyJames Braby (1824-1907) of Maybanks, Cox Green, lived in Surrey but was Rudgwick man, lay rector, landowner, inventer, wheelwright, railway advocate, Surrey JP, first chairman RPC, village benefactor, lord of Drungewick manor https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/annie-mccall-in-1945.jpgAnnie McCall in 1945Dr Annie McCall (1859-1949) was the founder and driving force of the TB Sanatorium behind her house, Kings, in Church St. Born in Manchester, one of the first women doctors, a renowned midwife and trainer at her eponymous hospital in Clapham, she is buried in Rudgwick churchyard she has no memorialhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/hedger-centenery-wsct-27-mar-09-copy.jpgHedger centenery WSCT 27 Mar 09 - CopyRose Port married Percy Hedger, and in 2009, their son Norman and wife Marjorie both celebrated their 100th birthdays, unique so far in Rudgwickhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/port-family-outside-jasmine-house-circa-1899-page-001.jpgPort Family outside Jasmine House Circa 1899-page-001The Port family (builders) in Cox Green (Jasmine House), 1899. William and Mary Ann (seated) with children Percy, Rose, William Jr, Thomas, Lilian and Ivy (who wrote a memoir of her life)https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/evan-tredegar-double-portrait.jpgevan tredegar double portraitEvan Tredegar, later Lord Tredegar also spent much time in Rudgwick. Equally eccentric, unmarried, he also died in Rudgwick in 19492014-02-28T18:08:42+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/rudgwick-in-maps/later-maps-1870-to-c20th/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1909-os-1-in-to-1mile-e.jpg1909 OS 1 in to 1mile E1909https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1898-cox-green.png1898 Cox Green1898 Cox Green 1:2500https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1898-rowhook-1-to-10560.png1898 Rowhook 1 to 105601898 Rowhook 1:10560https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1880-rowhook-1-to-10560.png1880 Rowhook 1 to 105601880 Rowhook 1:5560https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1898-1-to-10560-rudgwick.png1898 1 to 10560 Rudgwick1898 Rudgwickhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1898-the-haven-1-to-10560.png1898 The Haven 1 to 105601898 The Haven 1:10560https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1880-the-haven-1-to10560.png1880 The Haven, 1 to10560The Havenhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1912-rudgwick-village.png1912 Rudgwick Village1912 Rudgwick Village1:2500https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1898-rudgwick-village.png1898 Rudgwick Village1898 Rudgwick Village 1:2500https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1898-rudgwick-station.png1898 Rudgwick Station1898 Rudgwick Station 1:25002014-02-23T18:00:27+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/rudgwick-in-maps/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/greenwood-1823-5-copy.jpgGreenwood, 1823-5 - Copy1823-5, Greenwood's map shows accurate detail based on Mudge's survey, and has the Rudgwick turnpike to the east, but not to the west of Bucks Greenhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/copy-of-dorking-kingston-sheet-79-1st-ed-os001.jpgCopy of Dorking & Kingston sheet 79, 1st ed OS001Sheet 87, Brightonhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/copy-of-ist-ed-os-rudgwick-south.jpgCopy of Ist Ed OS Rudgwick southRudgwick North, Extract from Sheet 79, Dorking and Kingston, 1st Ed OS map, on a very worn plate, and never updated to show railways!https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mudges-map-rudgwick-1811-copy.jpgMudge's map Rudgwick 1811 - Copythe same map as above, enlarged to show Rudgwick Street and the road to Horsham before the 1809 turnpikehttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mudge-1800.jpgMudge 1800c1800, Mudge's survey for the Board of Ordnance, forerunner of the Ordnance Survey. Mudge began his mammoth 1 inch to 1 mile work 10 years earlier. Sussex was completed and on sale by 1795.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1795-yeakell-gardner-gream-1-copy.jpg1795 Yeakell, Gardner & Gream 1 - Copy1795, Yeakell & Gardner's map is an attempt to show fields but not accurately. Limited hachuring. Spelling is improving. Roads are more accurately shown.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1777-copy-andrews-drury.jpg1777 Copy Andrews & DruryOur favourite map, 1777, by Andrews and Drury, a rare map, fascinating for its inaccuracies as well as its detail. uses hachuring for slopes to good effect.https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1749-bowen-east-copy.jpg1749 Bowen east - Copy1749, Bowen's map extract shows only the east of the parish, Rowhook and Stane Streethttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1740c-overton-bowles-north-to-south-copy.jpg1740c Overton & Bowles (north to south) - Copy1740s, Overton & Bowles Map is nearly identical to Bowen'shttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1724-budgen-copy.jpg1724 Budgen - Copythe 1724 Budgen map, 1 inch to 1 mile, showing only the south of the parish. one day we might find a more complete copy2014-02-22T18:44:20+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/gallery/rudgwick-now/https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kings-head.jpgKings HeadThe King's Head is situated in front of the churchyard, and opposite Woes. built in 1730s it may not have become a pub before the 1790s https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the-fox-1.jpg??????????The Fox Inn at Bucks Green was formerly a late C17th cottage (catslide roof) called Franktonhook, and a late C18th attached house, which was the parish Poor House before becoming an ale house. Only later was the cottage included in the pubhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/monks-farm-2012.jpgMonks Farm 2012Monks, c1670, is in the NE 'panhandle' of the parish, almost in Surrey, and on old Stane Streethttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/copy-of-honey-lane-farmhouse.jpgCopy of Honey Lane FarmhouseNorth of Rowhook is Honey Lane Farmhouse, the only C16th jettied crosswing to hall house in Rudgwick, dating from c1475https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the-mucky-duck.jpgThe Mucky DuckFor most of its history The Mucky Duck Inn was The Cricketers, built on its newly enclosed common allotment in 1855 to replace the Pig Inn next door, in the hands of the Songhurst family for most of the rest of the centuryhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the-blue-ship-2.jpgThe Blue Ship 2The Blue Ship is country pub in The Haven. A former smallholding called Bakers Shaw became an ale house in mid-C19th, when new wing added to c1600 dwellinghttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/chequers-inn-2008.jpgChequers Inn 2008The Chequers Inn is a former early C17th cottage which became a pub in1798. the extension in corrugated iron is an eccentric additionhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/chequered-oak-stringersland.jpgChequered Oak (Stringersland)Opposite is Chequered Oak House (Stringersland), also C17th with crosswing c1900https://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/rowhook-farm-from-gate.jpgRowhook Farm from gateRowhook Farm (once Blakes), on the far east side of Rudgwick is a property on the parish boundary, also the line of Roman Stane Street. Not many householders can boast that! possibly 1650, but re-modelled in 1930s as attractive house. barn also C17thhttps://rudgwick-rps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/st-johns.jpgSt John'sclose to Exfold is the tiny St John's church, a mission room opened in 1913, now celebrating it's centenery as a Tisman Common mission room, and still open for worship2014-02-19T18:33:42+00:00weekly0.6https://rudgwick-rps.org.ukdaily1.02026-03-29T09:51:07+00:00