- Parish Council's Neighbourhood Plan for Fernhurst will be discussed at a public meeting at 7pm on 3 April, in the Village Hall. See http://www.fernhurstpc.co.uk/ and, for background reading, the 1999 Fernhurst Village Design Statement.
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Jubilees & Jubilations - an exhibition celebrating all things Royal is being organised by The Fernhurst Archive at the Village Hall on Saturday 2 June, 10am - 12 noon. Exhibition poster. If you have any memories or memorabilia, maybe the time you met a member of the Royal family, attended a Royal Garden Party or waved your Union Flag at a Royal occasion, we'd like to hear about it. Please
or contact Christine Maynard (653663), Brenda Newman (653700) or Iain Brown (653081).
- Sign up for faster broadband: www.westsussex-betterconnected.org.uk
- South Downs National Park Authority agrees to controversial plans to build new homes at the King Edward VII Hospital site. See the proposals on the developer's website.
- Ex Syngenta site development plans: See an architect's sketch (370 KB) showing one idea for developing the site published in Jan 2011. As the development would have a major impact on the future of our village, we encourage members to make their views known, as and when these are sought.
- Researching your family history? We have unique transcripts of 1841-1911 censuses, 1840s tithe records of Fernhurst and neighbouring parishes, wills and probate records, and other data. Now with a complete names index - a rich resource for genealogy! New! 1871, 1881 Fernhurst censuses added.
- Finally - don't forget to check our upcoming events list and recent newsletter
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membership
of the Fernhurst Society including recent members' newsletters
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Fernhurst Society publications,
including the book Voices of Fernhurst, booklets and a millennium
map
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links to local organisations
and information sources, including family history and genealogy.
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The Society arose out of the work undertaken by villagers
to produce the Fernhurst Village Design Statement. Adopted by Chichester District Council in 2000, the Statement provides guidelines for future
building developments in the area.
About Fernhurst village and parish
Fernhurst is a rural English village located in the Sussex
weald in southern Britain, overlooked by Blackdown Hill (920 ft) and other
hills including Telegraph Hill (676 ft), Marley Heights (700 ft), Bexley
Hill (600 ft) and Fridays Hill (675 ft). The village lies in the
Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the north-west of
the county of West Sussex close to the borders of Surrey and Hampshire
counties.
In 2009 the South Downs National Park, England's ninth national park, was declared, covering 627 square miles of rural Sussex and Hampshire. The Park which stretches for 100 miles from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east incorporates the Western Weald including Fernhurst. The South Downs National Park was officially designated on 31st March 2010.
Fernhurst village has won several awards over the years:
2008 winner, Communications category, South England region, Calor Village of the Year award
2007 winner, West Sussex Village of the Year
1994 runner-up, Best Kept Village West Sussex
1993 winner, Best Kept Village West Sussex
1990 winner, Best Kept Village West Sussex
1988 merit award, Best Kept Village West Sussex
The towns of Haslemere and Midhurst lie to the north
and south respectively. Fernhurst Parish has a population of 2,765 (2001 census) and
includes the settlements of Fernhurst village, Henley Common, Kingsley
Green, Bell Vale and part of Camelsdale.
The parish was formerly named Farnhurst. Other alternative
spellings of Fernhurst in historical documents include Farnherst, Farnehurst,
Fernehurst, Farnest, Fernest, Fernnist, ffarneste, ffarnehurst.

Fernhurst village sign
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