Easebourne, Sussex

Description
Easebourne, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the river Rother, 1 mile NE of Midhurst station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 WNW of Petworth, was once a market-town, and has a post and money order office under Midhurst; telegraph office, Midhurst. The parish comprises 4214 acres; population of the civil parish, 1392 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1546. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in the time of Henry III. by John de Bohun, and some remains of it still exist. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; value, £100. Patron, the Earl of Egmont. The church was almost entirely rebuilt in 1876, and contains an alabaster effigy of Sir David Owen, who died in 1542, ^nd a marble monument of Lord Montague, who died in 1591. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a mission room, and a village club. The workhouse for Midhurst district is in Easebourne.