Date/Time
Date(s) - 11 September 2024
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Price
£0.00
Location
Leconfield Hall
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Please join us at Leconfield Hall, 7 pm, for a talk about the History of Wisborough Green with Andrew Strudwick.
HISTORY OF WISBOROUGH GREEN
WEDNESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER LECONFIELD HALL 7 p.m – Doors open 6.30 Admission Charge £5 for members £7 for non members. Prior booking not required. Refreshments available
This illustrated talk will be given by Wisborough Green resident and Petworth Society Member Andrew Strudwick. Andrew is the chairman of the Wisborough Green Village History Society and has lived in and around the village on and off since the 1970s.
Wisborough Green, so near to Petworth, has a very different but still fascinating history.
Andrew will take us on a journey through 800 years of Wisborough Green’s history, stopping off here and there to examine key facts and anecdotes as well as some myths and legends
Hear about PC George Smith who saved the parish church from destruction; learn why the church clock had two number X’s on its face; how the village’s womenfolk saved the altar in the Reformation; why the chestnut trees around the green are planted out of order, how the German air force turned some saucepans into colanders, and much more.
