Brooks Green
Brooks Green is a hamlet in the Shipley civil parish of the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is in the north-west of the parish,[1] approximately 2 miles (3 km) from the parish village of Shipley, and 4.5 miles (7 km) south-west from the district town of Horsham. The hamlet is within the Southwater South and Shipley ward for West Sussex County Council.
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Brooks Green Location within West Sussex | |
OS grid reference | TQ3948025617 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Horsham |
Postcode district | RH13 0 |
Police | Sussex |
Fire | West Sussex |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
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Brooks Green has existed at least since 1724, and in 1850 contained about nine buildings.[1]
The hamlet is centred on the south to north Coolham to Barns Green minor road, at the point where Coolham Road becomes Trout Lane at a staggered junction with Emms Lane, running west, and Lackenhurst Lane, running east. The rural aspect is of farms, fields, orchards, managed woodland and isolated and stream-fed ponds. Two streams, Lackenhurst Gill at the south-east and another at the north-west which feeds Parson's Brook, both feed the River Adur, 1,500 yards (1,400 m) to the south. In the north of the hamlet is a residential area of new-build properties, a caravan park, a motor services company, and a dog boarding kennels.[2][3] Approximately 500 yards (460 m) south-east from the central junction, and south off Lackenhurst Lane, is the farmhouse of Lackenhurst, Grade II listed in 1959, which dates to the 16th century and is timber-framed, of two storeys, with a half-hipped gabled roof of Horsham Stone slabs.[2][4][5]
References
- Page, William (1986). The Victoria History of the County of Sussex. 6. A. Constable. p. 110. ISBN 9780197227671.
- Extracted from "Brooks Green", GetOutside, Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 13 June 2020
- Extracted from Brooks Green, Google Maps 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020
- Historic England. "Lackenhurst (1026928)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- "Renovation and Remodelling a C16 Sussex Farmhouse" (Lackenhurst), Pullen Architecture. Retrieved 14 June 2020