Dating back to 1382. The Ancient Order of Froth Blowers was founded here in 1924.
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Fittleworth is a village with close connections to the art and music of Victorian and Edwardian England. The chocolate box prettiness it had in those days appealed to painters of the period. The public for which they painted liked its pictures pretty and with a touch of sentimentality about them. First to set up his easel here was Vicat Coles. He rented a large house called Brinkwells and held sketching classes for his friends. Soon many artists were coming for weekends.
 
Even more arrived in the 1880s when Fittleworth station was opened and 18 trains a day on the Horsham to Pulborough line stopped at it. They were made welcome at the Swan by Miss Jane Hawkins. She had a fondness for artists and not only persuaded them to patronise her house but also to paint in it. On the oak panels in the Picture Room of the inn are to this day paintings by many 19th and early 20th century artists. Also still on display is the inn sign painted by Robert Caton Woodville, noted for his scenes of conflict in the Boer War. Assisted by his son he produced a sign to hang from the centre of a wooden arch which spanned the village street. It showed a naked Leda, with a face remarkably like Queen Victoria's, sitting on the back of a swan.
But was altered to show a well-draped faerie queen.

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