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A vision of Britain through time
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RUSPER, a parish, with a village, in Horsham district, Sussex; 2½ miles N W of Faygate r. station, and 5 N N E of Horsham. It has a post-office under Horsham. Acres, 3, 126. Real property, £2, 173. Pop., 590. Houses, 98. Nunnery is the seat of G. G. Hill, Esq.; and occupies the site of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the time of Richard I. by Archbishop Gervaise, and refounded in 1231 by W de Braose. Norman's farmhas belonged to the family of Mutton since the Normanconquest. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £202. Patron, Mrs. Greene. The church is partly early English. Charities, £16.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Rusper CP/AP Horsham RegD/PLU Sussex AncC |
| Place: | Rusper |
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