The Fernhurst Society
The Fernhurst Portal
A gateway to information, including other websites, about Fernhurst and surrounding areas.
Note: the Fernhurst Society is not responsible for the content of external
internet sites. This listing is provided for information only and the
services and products listed and any opinions represented therein do not
constitute an endorsement by the Society.
- Fernhurst Village Community Board on Facebook
- The Fernhurst Hub - a meeting place, coffee shop and focus for learning & leisure in the heart of the village. 2 Crossfield, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3JL
- Fernhurst Cricket Club
- Fernhurst Choral Society
- Fernhurst Football Club
- Fernhurst Furnace Preservation Group
- Fernhurst Horticultural Society
- Fernhurst Parish Council
- Fernhurst Recreation Ground Trust
- Fernhurst Scout Group contact email
- Fernhurst Table Tennis Club
- Fernhurst Tennis Club
- Fernhurst Village Hall (available for hire for conferences, training and seminars). For availability and bookings: phone 07596 137660 or email villagehallfernhurst@gmail.com or check the link here
- Haslemere Museum
- The Haslemere Society, c/o The Haslemere Educational Museum, 78 High Street, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2LA
- St Margaret's Church
Pubs and Restaurants
- The Red Lion, The Green, Fernhurst, GU27 3HYEmail
- Banyan Restaurant
- Duke of Cumberland, Henley Village, Fernhurst, West Sussex GU27 3HQ
- The Hollist Arms, Lodsworth, Petworth, West Sussex GU28 9BZ
- The Three Horseshoes, Lickfold, West Sussex GU28 9EY
Information sources
- Blackdown, West Sussex (Wikipedia)
- Camelsdale & Lynchmere Gateway
- Fernhurst entry in Wikipedia
- Hantsweb
- Haslemere.com information
- Liphook.co.uk
- Lodsworth Parish
- Lurgashall Parish
- Midhurst & Area - Gravelroots
- My Home Town - West Sussex links
- Discover Petworth
- Visit Petworth
- West Sussex.info- comprehensive site about West Sussex
Landscape and nature conservation
- Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Ben Law's Woodland House
- The Conservation Volunteers - West Sussex
- Fernhurst Neighbourhood Plan 2013-2028: The final version was formally adopted in April 2016: www.fernhurstpc.org.uk/fnp-referendumdoc. Background: 1999 Fernhurst Village Design Statement.
- Fernhurst Neighbourhood Plan 2013-2028: The final version was formally adopted in April 2016: www.fernhurstpc.org.uk/fnp-referendumdoc. Background: 1999 Fernhurst Village Design Statement.
- Frack Free Fernhurst Facebook page
- Haslemere Natural History Society
- Oil and gas extraction plans near Fernhurst village centre. Celtique Energie's planning application (planning ref: SDNP/13/05896/CM) for an exploration well was rejected in 2014 by the South Downs National Park authorities. Plans by Celtique Energie to appeal were abandoned.
- South Downs Joint Committee
- Sussex Bat Group
- Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre
- Society of Sussex Downsmen, Mr M B Thomas, 10 The Drive, Hove, East Sussex BN3 3JA
- Sussex Wildlife Trust
- Sussex Ornithological Society
Genealogy and history
- a vision of Fernhurst - maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions
- BBC's WW2 People's War - Fernhurst memories
- Fernhurst - British History Online from: A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester (1953)
- Fernhurst Furnace Preservation Group
- Fernhurst Parish Church War Memorial
- Kelly's Post Office Directory of Farnhurst (= Fernhurst) in 1867 (from GEN UKI)
- Kingshott Family history
- Listed Buildings in Fernhurst
- Memories of Fernhurst
- Midhurst in Living Memory
- Old Sussex Mapped
- Sussex Family History Group
- Sussex PhotoHistory
- Sussex Record Society
- United Kingdom Census Records at Census Finder
- Verdley Castle
- Victoria County History of Sussex
- The Weald of Kent, Surrey & Sussex
- Wealden Iron Research Group
- Wealden's Iron Industry
- Welland Family History has lots of information about Fernhurst people
- West Sussex Record Office & Archives
Books
- Davies, Anthony (editor) (2006) Voices of Fernhurst. The Fernhurst Society.
- Magilton, John (2003). Fernhurst Furnace and other industrial sites in the western weald. Chichester District Archaeology series, no. 2. Chichester District Council.
- A. Ponsonby (1920). The Priory and Manor of Lynchmere and Shulbrede. Wessex Press, Taunton.
- Rickman, John (1998). The Land of Lod. Peggy Rickman.
- Silver, Brian (1999). Fernhurst including Kingsley Green and Henley: pictures and people.
- Tite, Graham (1987). Verdley: the history of a Sussex Estate. ICI plc, Plant Protection Division, Fernhurst.
- Tudor, Alice M. (1934) Fernhurst: the story of a Sussex village. Billing & Sons: Guildford. [Republished 1969 by The Blackdown Bookshop].
Other useful links
- Action in rural Sussex
- British Towns & Villages Network
- Civic Voice
- Cowdray Estate
- Cowdray Heritage Trust
- Google Maps: Fernhurst
- Haslemere Educational Museum
- High Weald Community
- Local Heritage Initiative
- Lodsworth Village Hall
- Petworth House & Park (National Trust)
- St Margaret's Church, Fernhurst (Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture)
- The Sussex dialect (from Highways and Byways in Sussex by Edward Verrall Lucas, 1904)
- Sussex Archaeological Society
- Weald and Downland Living Museum at Singleton
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