Population 329. 2011 Census Civil parish Trotton with Chithurst Area 7.68 km² Dialling code 01730 | OS grid reference SU836225 Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Saturday 2:12 PM | |
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Trotton with Chithurst is a civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. Trotton is on the A272 road ten kilometres (7 miles) west of Midhurst. Chithurst is about one mile (2 km) north west of Trotton. The parish also contains the hamlet of Dumpford.
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- chithurst cittaviveka song kran day 2011
- Map of Trotton with Chithurst UK
- Trotton
- Chithurst
- Dumpford
- References
Map of Trotton with Chithurst, UK
In the 2001 census the parish covered 7.7 square kilometres (3.0 sq mi) and had 129 households with a total population of 328. 160 residents were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population had only increased marginally to 329.
Trotton
The village of Trotton is home to St. George's Church, an Anglican church dating to around 1230. The church is used by the British Orthodox Church once a month. The River Rother crosses the A272 at a bridge near the church.
The author Thomas Otway was born in Trotton in 1652.
Chithurst
The village of Chithurst contains St. Mary's Church and Cittaviveka, the Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, which is a Buddhist monastery located in Chithurst, which was founded by Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho.
The church dates to the 11th century It is one of the smallest recorded in Taylor & Taylor's Anglo-Saxon Architecture and exhibits Saxon features in the proportions, the thinness of the walls, a splayed window in the south chancel wall, long-and-short work quoins with large shaped stones, and some herringbone work in the stone rubble masonry of the walls. It consists of nave and chancel which show these signs of construction in the Anglo-Saxon era, later west porch and bell turret.
Dumpford
Dumpford is a hamlet located on a minor road between Trotton and Elsted railway station, and also the name of an historic Hundred. It contains one hotel, a sewage works and Terwick watermill.