Rudgwick is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village is 6 miles (10 km) west from Horsham on the north side of the A281 road. The parish's northern boundary forms part of the county boundary between Surrey and West Sussex.
The parish covers 6,394 acres (2,588 ha).[1] The 2001 Census recorded 2,791 people[2] living in 1,013 households, of whom 1,425 were economically active.[citation needed]. The 2011 Census recorded a population, including Tisman's Common of 2,722.[3]
History
Historically Ridgewick was an alternative form of the toponym.[4]Riccherwyk may be another, seen in 1377.[5]
The parish has two 17th century farmhouses. Garlands, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the village, is early 17th century and Redhouse Farm 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village is late 17th century.[6] Naldrett House, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village, is an 18th-century Georgian farmhouse of three bays and two storeys, built of brick with stone quoins.[6]
During World War 2, two RAF B-25s collided in the air over Rudgwick, resulting in the deaths of 8 airmen. The crash sites, now in the grounds of Rikkyo School, were excavated in the 1990s.[8]
In 1985, excavations in Rudgwick Brick Yard resulted in the discovery of a new species of the Polacanthus genus, which became known as the Rudgwickosaurus.[9]
Rudgwick School football team, 1948
Rudgwick double railway bridge
Canfields Farm
Rudgwick Chapel
Education
Pennthorpe School is on in Church Street.
Rudgwick Primary School is located in the village,[10] as is Rikkyo School in England, a Japanese boarding school.[11]
Notable people
Bertram Prance (1889-1958), artist and illustrator, lived in the village.[12]
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