Easebourne is a village

Village

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 and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Chichester

Chichester (district)

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 District of West Sussex

West Sussex

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, England

England

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. It is located half a mile (0.8 km) north of Midhurst

Midhurst

Midhurst is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, with a population of 4,889 in 2001. The town is situated on the River Rother and is home to the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House and the stately Victorian Cowdray Park...

, across the River Rother

River Rother (Western)

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 on the A272 and A286 roads. The parish also includes the hamlet of Henley to the north. In the 2001 census there were 708 households with a total population of 1,717 of whom 785 were economically active.

There is one public house in Easebourne, the White Horse, and one in Henley, the Duke Of Cumberland. The parish church of St Mary is 13th century or earlier in origin. Cowdray Park

Cowdray Park, West Sussex

Cowdray Park is a country house at the centre of the Cowdray Estate in Midhurst, West Sussex. The park lies in the South Downs National Park. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1908. It is probably best known for Cowdray Park Polo Club, which is one of the...

, to the east of the village, has a golf

Golf

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 course, and is home to a first-class Polo

Polo

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...

 club. Adjacent to the polo grounds lie the ruins of the Tudor Cowdray House

Cowdray House

Cowdray House consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses of that time. It is situated just east of Midhurst, West Sussex standing on the north bank of the River Rother...

 the most famous building in the village, built as a great Tudor mansion with castle features. Started in 1520, it was completed by 1542. but was devastated by fire in 1793. It has not been occupied since. Another of the village’s famous buildings is Easebourne Priory. Built for ten Augustinian canonesses, it was founded before 1238 by the de Bohun family who were from St. Ann’s Hill in nearby Midhurst. On the northern edge of Easebourne village on the A286 road Budgenor Lodge, recently converted into luxury flats, is the former Midhurst Union Workhouse

Workhouse

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 which was opened in 1794 by a Gilbert Union of seventeen parishes. From 1835 it was run and enlarged by the Midhurst Poor Law Union, serving 26 parishes.

Famous residents

It is the home of Billie Piper

Billie Piper

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 and Laurence Fox

Laurence Fox

Laurence Fox is an English actor best known for his leading role as Detective Sergeant James Hathaway in the British TV drama series Lewis...

, who married in the village church of St Mary in 2007.