- Woodmancote, West Sussex
infobox UK place
country = England
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static_image_caption= Church of St. Peter
latitude= 50.91872
longitude= -0.24441
official_name = Woodmancote
population =
civil_parish= Woodmancote
shire_district= Horsham
shire_county=West Sussex
region= South East England
constituency_westminster=Arundel and South Downs
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postcode_district =
postcode_area=
dial_code=
os_grid_reference= TQ235147Woodmancote is a
village andcivil parish in the Horsham District ofWest Sussex ,England , located 1 mile (1.5km) southeast ofHenfield on the A281 road. It should not be confused with the otherWest Sussex village of Woodmancote nearChichester .This scattered community has no village centre, but includes the hamlet of Blackstone. The
Anglican parish church, "St Peter's", stands alone beside the A281 road, while not far away is Woodmancote Place, a large house used as a country club. Originally thirteenth century the church was largely rebuilt in 1868. There is a parish hall and one public house, the "Wheatsheaf", in Wheatsheaf Lane".The parish was recorded in the Domesday survey of 1086 as "Odemancote". Two of the
Lewes martyrs, burnt at the stake in theMarian Persecutions of 1556, Thomas Harland and John Oswald, came from Woodmancote.The parish has a land area of 848.7 hectares (2096 acres). In the 2001 census 478 people lived in 189 households, of whom 248 were economically active.
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