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Twineham
Twineham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located eight kilometres (5.0 miles) to the west of Burgess Hill. The civil parish covers an area of 784 hectares (1,940 acres) In the 2001 census 271 people lived in 100 households, of whom 139 were economically active. The 2011 Census population was 306.
The village centre has no pub, post office or shop. There is only the church and the school.
The hamlet of Hickstead lies at the eastern end of the parish, on the A23 road, 2.7 mi (4.3 km) west of Burgess Hill.
In Anglo-Saxon times this area was a royal manor.
This flat waterland geography of the Adur's fingered streams is a land of hamms, that word that the Saxons used to denote long, reedy brooks and meadows, wetlands hemmed in by higher ground, or land hemmed in by marsh:46 and there are places like Twineham (meaning "place between the streams", recorded as Tuineam in the late 11th century, Twyne in the 13th century and Twynym in the 15th century), and Wyndham (now Wineham). The parish embraces the lands between the western and eastern arms of the Adur, and it embraces the confluence of the eastern Adur and the Herrings (or Heron) Stream.
There is another forgotten geography too, that stripes this landscape in long south–north parallels: the geography of the drove roads. Probably early medieval, maybe some earlier still, these were the wide ways whereby the cultivators of the rich lands of the coastal plain, the Downs, and the under-down spring line, brought their swine for the autumn pannage in the Wealden woods, and their cattle for the lush grass of the meadowlands. Some of these droves are plain to see like the Wineham Lane. Others have faded greatly into the landscape, though hedgelines and old boundaries mark them out, like that going north from High Cross through Twineham Place, and on to Spronketts Wood north of the A272.
In 1911, the village started to get its piped water supply from the Burgess Hill Water Company. In 1928, the roads were surfaced, and electricity came to the village in 1936. The village of Twineham has never had its own pub, although there are two pubs in the parish of Twineham.
Around Twineham is a level, open countryside of meandering lush streams and large fields, a bit like the best of old Norfolk in the well-timbered Weald. Along the streams, the sounds of yellowhammers and reed warblers in spring do their best to compete with the low roar of the London Road. A tawny owl made it its home (2016) and hunts along the thick hedgerows and low scrub much as a barn owl would.
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Twineham
Twineham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located eight kilometres (5.0 miles) to the west of Burgess Hill. The civil parish covers an area of 784 hectares (1,940 acres) In the 2001 census 271 people lived in 100 households, of whom 139 were economically active. The 2011 Census population was 306.
The village centre has no pub, post office or shop. There is only the church and the school.
The hamlet of Hickstead lies at the eastern end of the parish, on the A23 road, 2.7 mi (4.3 km) west of Burgess Hill.
In Anglo-Saxon times this area was a royal manor.
This flat waterland geography of the Adur's fingered streams is a land of hamms, that word that the Saxons used to denote long, reedy brooks and meadows, wetlands hemmed in by higher ground, or land hemmed in by marsh:46 and there are places like Twineham (meaning "place between the streams", recorded as Tuineam in the late 11th century, Twyne in the 13th century and Twynym in the 15th century), and Wyndham (now Wineham). The parish embraces the lands between the western and eastern arms of the Adur, and it embraces the confluence of the eastern Adur and the Herrings (or Heron) Stream.
There is another forgotten geography too, that stripes this landscape in long south–north parallels: the geography of the drove roads. Probably early medieval, maybe some earlier still, these were the wide ways whereby the cultivators of the rich lands of the coastal plain, the Downs, and the under-down spring line, brought their swine for the autumn pannage in the Wealden woods, and their cattle for the lush grass of the meadowlands. Some of these droves are plain to see like the Wineham Lane. Others have faded greatly into the landscape, though hedgelines and old boundaries mark them out, like that going north from High Cross through Twineham Place, and on to Spronketts Wood north of the A272.
In 1911, the village started to get its piped water supply from the Burgess Hill Water Company. In 1928, the roads were surfaced, and electricity came to the village in 1936. The village of Twineham has never had its own pub, although there are two pubs in the parish of Twineham.
Around Twineham is a level, open countryside of meandering lush streams and large fields, a bit like the best of old Norfolk in the well-timbered Weald. Along the streams, the sounds of yellowhammers and reed warblers in spring do their best to compete with the low roar of the London Road. A tawny owl made it its home (2016) and hunts along the thick hedgerows and low scrub much as a barn owl would.
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