Population 1,820. 2011 Census Civil parish Easebourne Country England Area 17.95 km² Local time Friday 2:19 AM Dialling code 01730 | OS grid reference SU894225 Region South East Sovereign state United Kingdom Shire county West Sussex District Chichester District UK parliament constituency Chichester | |
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Easebourne (pronounced "Ezborn", 'Ezbourne' or "Ezbun") is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is half a mile (0.8 km) north of Midhurst, across the River Rother on the A272 and A286 roads. The parish includes the hamlet of Henley to the north. In the 2001 census there were 708 households with a total population of 1,717 of whom 785 were economically active.
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Map of Easebourne, Midhurst, UK
Governance
An electoral ward of the same name exists. This ward includes Lodsworth and at the 2011 census had a population of 2,492.
Amenities
There is one public house in Easebourne, the White Horse, and one in Henley, the Duke Of Cumberland. The Rother Inn closed in 1994 and the Holly Tree in 2004. Cowdray Park, to the east of the village, has a golf course, and is home to a first-class polo club.
Parish
The parish church of St Mary is 13th century or earlier in origin. The parish includes the hamlet of Henley to the north. In the 2001 census there were 708 households with a total population of 1,717 of whom 785 were economically active.
Notable buildings
Adjacent to the polo grounds lie the ruins of the Tudor Cowdray House, built as a Tudor mansion with castle features. Started in 1520, it was completed by 1542, but was devastated by fire in 1793. It has not been occupied since.
Easebourne Priory was built for ten Augustinian canonesses and was founded before 1238 by the de Bohun family who were from St. Ann’s Hill in nearby Midhurst.
On the northern edge of Easebourne village on the A286 road Budgenor Lodge, recently converted into luxury flats, is the former Midhurst Union Workhouse which was opened in 1794 by a Gilbert Union of seventeen parishes. From 1835 it was run and enlarged by the Midhurst Poor Law Union, serving 26 parishes.
Famous residents
It is the home of Billie Piper and Laurence Fox, who married in the village church of St Mary in 2007.