Dial Post
| Dial Post | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 Worthing Road, Dial Post | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ155195 |
| Location: | 50°57’50"N, 0°21’23"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Horsham |
| Postcode: | RH13 8 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Horsham |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Arundel and South Downs |
Dial Post is a tiny village in Sussex, a mile and a half south-west of West Grinstead, a village of much the same size, in the midst of the county.
There is one public house, the Crown, but no church or shops. Dial Post is within the Parish of West Grinstead, where the church is to be found.
History
The origin of the name is uncertain, Dial Post house, a large building dated 1712 post-dates the name of settlement as do Dial Post farm and Dial Post fields which were named in the early 18th century.[1] Dial Post farm comprised 300 acres in c. 1710 when it was leased for 21 years.[2] A public house, the Crown, is recorded as having been established as early as the 1870s.[1][3]
The ruins of mediæval Knepp Castle lie between Dial Post and Southwater by the A24.[4]
The first house was built in the late 1500s and was next to 3 other houses. In the Victorian era the hamlet had a village shop.
Transport links
Dial Post was originally on the main but picturesque road from London through the North and South Downs to Worthing, which became the A24. Today the road has ben straightened and the village bypassed to the east.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Dial Post) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 West Grinstead: A History of the County of Sussex
- ↑ West Grinstead: Economic history: A History of the County of Sussex:
- ↑ E. R. Kelly, ed (1878). "Post Office Directory of Sussex". Kelly & Co.. p. 3004 (211). http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16445coll4/id/339958/rec/3.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1010765: Knepp Castle
