West Grinstead, Sussex

Description
Grinstead, West, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village has two stations on the L.B. & S.C.R., one called West Grinstead, and the other Partridge Green. It is 44 miles from London, and 6 S of Horsham. The parish includes also the hamlet of Partridge Green, and is in Horsham district. It has a post and money order office under Horsham; telegraph office at railway stations. Acreage, 6757; population of the civil parish, 1582; of the ecclesiastical, 1578. Grinstead Park belonged formerly to the Carylls, and was visited in their time by Pope, when he wrote his " Rape of the Lock." The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; value, £550 with residence. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is ancient but good, and contains monuments of the Powletts, the Carylls, and the Burrells.. There are a Roman Catholic chapel and a Dominican priory, There are several fine seats in the neighbourhood.