Trotton with Chithurst
{{Short description|Parish in West Sussex, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Trotton with Chithurst
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|50.995893|-0.809682|display=inline,title}}
| static_image = Chithurst Church2.JPG
| static_image_width = 240px
| static_image_caption = St Mary’s Church, Chithurst
| area_total_km2 = 7.68
| population = 329
| population_ref = (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129868&c=GU31+5DA&d=16&e=62&g=6473731&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1444917006494&enc=1 |title=Trotton with Chithurst (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=15 October 2015}}
| population_density = {{convert|43|/km2|/sqmi|abbr=on}}
| civil_parish = Trotton with Chithurst
| shire_district = Chichester
| shire_county = West Sussex
| region = South East England
| constituency_westminster = Chichester
| post_town = PETERSFIELD
| postcode_district = GU31
| postcode_area = GU
| dial_code = 01730
| os_grid_reference = SU836225
| london_distance = {{convert|46|mi}} NE
| website = http://www.trotton-with-chithurst.org.uk/
}}
Trotton with Chithurst is a civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. Trotton is on the A272 road {{convert|7|mi}} west of Midhurst. Chithurst is about {{convert|1|mi}} northeast of Trotton. The parish also contains the hamlet of Dumpford.
In the 2001 census the parish covered {{convert|7.7|km2|sqmi}} and had 129 households with a total population of 328. 160 residents were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population had only increased marginally to 329.
Trotton
The village of Trotton is an Anglican parish on the A272, which passes over the River Rother near the church. Traffic over the sandstone bridge, which is Grade I listed and dates to about 1600,{{NHLE|desc=Trotton Bridge|num=1221337|accessdate=23 June 2019}} is controlled by traffic lights because it is too narrow for two vehicles to pass.
=Parish church=
{{main|St George's Church, Trotton}}
St George's Church dates to around 1230,{{Cite book|last=Chatterton-Newman|first=Roger|title=Betwixt Petersfield and Midhurst|year=1991|publisher=Middleton Press|location=Midhurst|isbn=0-906520-94-0}} and was rebuilt in about 1400.{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Trotton|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Trotton|access-date=23 June 2019}} The church is used by the British Orthodox Church once a month.
=History=
Trotton (Traitone or Trattone) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086) in the ancient hundred of Dumpford as having 14 households comprising four villagers and ten smallholders; with ploughing land, woodland, meadows, a mill and a church, it had a value to the lord of the manor of £5.{{cite web|title=Open Domesday: Trotton|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SU8322/trotton/|access-date=23 June 2019}}
In 1861, the population of the Anglican parish was 452, and its area was {{convert|3877|acre}}.
=Notable people=
According to Samuel Johnson, the author Thomas Otway was born in Trotton (Johnson calls it "Trottin") in 1652.{{cite book|first=Samuel|last=Johnson|title=Lives of the English Poets, 1779-1781|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1961}} Otway's father, Humphrey, was curate of the parish.
Chithurst
The village of Chithurst contains St Mary's Church and Cittaviveka, the Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, which is a Buddhist monastery located in Chithurst, which was founded by Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho.
The church dates to the 11th century.{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41684|title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester. Chithurst|editor-last=Salzman|editor-first=L. F. |year=1953|work=Victoria County History of Sussex|publisher=British History Online|pages=4–6|access-date=21 January 2012}} It is one of the smallest recorded in Taylor & Taylor’s Anglo-Saxon Architecture, and exhibits Saxon features in the proportions, the thinness of the walls, a splayed window in the south chancel wall, long-and-short work quoins with large shaped stones, and some herringbone work in the stone rubble masonry of the walls. It consists of a nave and chancel which show these signs of construction in the Anglo-Saxon era, with a later west porch and bell turret.
Chithurst (Titcherste) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086) in the ancient hundred of Dumpford as having 14 households comprising six villagers, five smallholders and three slaves; with ploughing land, woodland, meadows, a mill and a church, it had a value to the lord of the manor of £3.{{cite web|title=Open Domesday: Chithurst|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SU8423/chithurst/|access-date=23 June 2019}}
In 1861, Chithurst had a population of 213 and an area of {{convert|1047|acre}} of which, according to Kelly's 1867 Directory "about 360 are waste and wood land".{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Chithurst|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SSX/Chithurst|access-date=23 June 2019}}
Dumpford
Dumpford is a hamlet located on a minor road between Trotton and Elsted railway station, and also the name of an historic Hundred, which encompassed 277 households in the settlements of South Harting, East Harting and West Harting, Elsted, Treyford, Chithurst and Trotton.{{cite web|title=Open Domesday: Hundred of Dumpford|url=https://opendomesday.org/hundred/dumpford/|access-date=23 June 2019}}
Dumpford has an hotel, Southdowns Country Hotel, a sewage works and Terwick watermill.{{cite web|url=http://www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk/water.htm|title=Sussex Watermills : Watermills in Sussex : Watermills of Sussex : Sussex Group|author=Simon Potter|work=sussexmillsgroup.org.uk}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Trotton}}
{{Commons category|Chithurst}}
{{Commons category|Dumpford}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070306012443/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/venue.php?V=5187 St George's Church, Trotton]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070306012430/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/venue.php?V=4844 St Mary's Church, Chithurst]
- [http://www.cittaviveka.org/index2.htm Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery]
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