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The Trotton & Chithurst Guide
WEST SUSSEX
Trotton with Chithurst is a parish of West Sussex on the Petersfield to Midhurst section of the A272, approx. 7 miles (10k) west of Midhurst. There are 2 churches: St Mary's in Chithurst and St George's in Trotton.
Chithurst is the location of the Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, a monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism.
The Keepers Arms pub sits on the A272 and The Southdowns Hotel is closeby in Dumpford.
In 1980 Ballards Brewery was launched at Cumbers Farm, Trotton.
The 2001 census for Trotton & Chithurst showed a total population of 328.
There were 129 households and the parish covered 768 hectares (1,897 acres).
The dramatist Thomas Otway was born in Trotton in 1652.
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St. Georges church, Trotton - - St. Marys church, Chithurst

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NEWSFLASH

TROTTON - West Sussex
Lat-Long: - 50.99 (50°59') | -0.79 (0°47')
post code GU31
phone code :- 01730

Clerk of
Trotton with Chithurst Parish Council
Mrs M O Bentall
Copyhall Cottage, Chithurst,
01730 814245
Email:
postmaster@trotton-wsx-pc.gov.uk
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INDEX
Bus timetables
Business directories
Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
Cock Sparrow Hall
Fire Service
Gazetteer 1870
Map
Mobile police station
Parish Council Website
Photos of Trotton
Police
Rother Valley Trail Link
Samuel Twyford
Southdowns hotel fire - Jan 2008
St. Georges photo gallery
Thomas Otway
Vintage photos, Trotton

History of Trotton - published 1953
Post Office Directory for Trotton 1851
Post Office Directory for Trotton 1867

The CHURCHES
St Mary's in Chithurst
St George's in Trotton
Both are Anglican. St George's
used by the British Orthodox
Church on a monthly basis.

St. Georges Church, Trotton

St. Mary's Church, Chithurst

Aylings Garden centre
A272, Trotton
01730 813621

Southdowns Country Hotel
Dumpford lane, Trotton
01730 821521

BB
Orchard House, Mill Lane, Trotton
01730 812530

Trotton
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

Keepers Arms, Trotton - A272 - 01730 813724
Photo:- Patricia Steel - 17 February, 2007 - enlarge

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 & 1988, to the current premises in Nyewood.

Rogate brewery boss feeling
flat about wage plans - May 2008

COCK SPARROW HALL
Anyone heard of this place in Trotton?
click here

Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
click to enlarge

Cittaviveka Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, Chithurst
Chithurst is the location of the Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, a monastery in the
Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism.
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

Tuxlith Chapel
Milland, West Sussex
OS: SU825283
It has been suggested that this building served as the original parish church of Trotton
and was replaced by the present Trotton church early in the 14th century.

click here for more information

TROTTON & CHITHURST NOTICEBOARD

- WANTED -
Midhurst Postcard of around 1970

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Harting - - Heyshott - - Iping - - Lickfold - - Linch - - Lodsworth - - Lurgashall - - Midhurst - - Northchapel - - Nyewood
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