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TROTTON - West Sussex
Lat-Long: - 50.99 (50°59') | -0.79 (0°47')
post code GU31
phone code :- 01730
 
Churches:
St Mary's in Chithurst and St George's in Trotton. Both are Anglican. St George's is also used by the British Orthodox Church on a monthly basis.


St. Georges Church, Trotton

 

St. Mary's Church, Chithurst

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Mrs M O Bentall
Clerk of
Trotton with Chithurst Parish Council
Copyhall Cottage, Chithurst,
01730 814245
Email:
postmaster@trotton-wsx-pc.gov.uk
complete list of County parish clerks
 
Bus timetables
Fire Service
Gazetteer 1870
Map
Mobile police station
Photos
Police
Samuel Twyford
St. Georges gallery
Thomas Otway
Vintage photos, Trotton
 
History of Trotton - published 1953
Post Office Directory for Trotton 1867
 
 
Aylings Garden centre
A272, Trotton
01730 813621
 
Southdowns Country Hotel
Dumpford lane, Trotton
01730 821521
 
BB
Orchard House, Mill Lane, Trotton
01730 812530
 
The Unquiet Grave
Collected by Clive Carey from Mr and Mrs Stemp, at Trotton, Sussex, in January 1912
Roll of honour
St. Georges memorialTrotton
World War 1
The memorial is at the
entrance to St. George's church.
Seven names. click here
 
Chithurst and Iping
Memorial at Church of
The Good Shepherd, Iping.
16 names recorded on the
shrine on the East Wall.
2 burials in Iping Churchyard, neither recorded on memorial
click here
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Keepers Arms, Trotton - A272 - 01730 813724
Photo:- Patricia Steel - 17 February, 2007 - click to enlarge
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This water colour was painted by Martin Hardie in 1946 and titled ‘April Sunshine, Trotton Mill, Sussex’.
was it Trotton Mill or Milland?
 

Rother bridge, Trotton
click for Trotton Bridge 1935
 
       
In July 1980 Ballards Best Bitter was launched from the old cow house at Cumbers Farm, Trotton. The brewery was moved to the Ballards Pub in Elsted in 1985 and again, in 1988, to the current premises in Nyewood.
 
Rogate brewery boss feeling
flat about wage plans
- May 2008


Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
click for larger image Chithurst is the location of Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery,
a monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism.
Cittaviveka Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, Chithurst
01730 814986
Stewards: English Sangha Trust, Cittaviveka.
website
 

1870 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Trotton like this:
"TROTTON, a parish, with a village, in Midhurst district, Sussex; 1 mile NE of Elsted r. station, and 3 W by N of Midhurst.
Post town, Petersfield. Acres, 3,877. Real property, £3,451.
Pop., 452. Houses, 92.
The manor was long held by the family of Camois, and belongs now to R. H. Nevell, Esq. T. Place is the residence of A. E. Knox, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £420.* Patrons, T. Staunton and F. Inman, Esqs. The church was rebuilt in 1400. The p. curacy of Milland is a separate benefice. The poet Otway was a native."




Smugglers from the Chichester area, known to have worked with the Hawkhurst men:
(A notorious gang of smugglers and murderers from Kent. c.1747)
 
John Mills - of Trotton, son of Richard Mills. Hanged at Chichester as accessory to murder of Chater and murderer of Richard Hawkins. Gibbeted at Slindon.
Richard Mills - of Trotton, hanged as accessory to murder of Chater.
more info click here
 
 


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