Elsted
| Elsted | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
 St Paul's Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU816195 |
| Location: | 50°58’12"N, 0°50’20"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Midhurst |
| Postcode: | GU29 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Chichester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Chichester |
Elsted is a village in Sussex, on the Midhurst to South Harting road, four and a half miles west of Midhurst.
History
Elsted (Halestede) is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, recorded as having 32 households: seven villagers, 23 smallholders and two slaves; with ploughing land, pasture and woodland for pigs, a mill and a church, it had a value to the lord of the manor of £15.[1]
In 1861, the area of the parish was recorded 1,789 acre, and the population was 174.[2]
Parish church
The small parish church north of the crossroads, St Paul's, has a nave which had become derelict, leaving the chancel as the village church, until it was rebuilt in the 1950s. The surviving north wall is of Norman style herringbone stonework, with two round arched doorways filled in to make lancet windows.[2]
About the village
The village has one public house, and there is another at the former Elsted railway station at Elsted Marsh east of the village.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Elsted) |
