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Dial Post

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Dial Post
Worthing Road, Dial Post
Dial Post is located in West Sussex
Dial Post
Dial Post
Location within West Sussex
OS grid referenceTQ155195
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHorsham
Postcode districtRH13 8
Dialling code01403
PoliceSussex
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West Sussex
50°57′50″N 0°21′23″W / 50.96377°N 0.35651°W / 50.96377; -0.35651

Dial Post is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies in the civil parish of West Grinstead, whose largest settlement, Partridge Green, is 2 miles (3.2 km) to the east. The village has a population of around 100, based on the average headcount per inhabited dwelling; in 2001 the population of the civil parish as a whole was 2,934.[1] The village lies on the edge of the Knepp Wildland, a pioneering rewilding project.

History

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The origin of the name is uncertain, although a common explanation is that it combines two local features – a sundial that once stood in the garden of Dial Post House (dial) and the practice of posting horses at the coaching inn, The Crown (post). Dial Post House, a large building dated 1712, post-dates the name of the settlement, as do Dial Post Farm and Dial Post Fields, which were named in the early 18th century.[2] Dial Post Farm comprised 300 acres (120 ha) in about 1710, when it was leased for 21 years.[3] A public house called the Crown at Dial Post is first recorded in 1874.[4]

The ruins of medieval Knepp Castle lie between Dial Post and Southwater beside the A24.[5]

Amenities and landmarks

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The Green

There is one public house, the Crown Inn, a garden centre, and a development at Blakers Yard offering commercial space and dwellings, but no church in Dial Post. The village centre retains four of the area's listed buildings, all of Grade II:

  • New Lodge[6]
  • Hazel Cottage[7]
  • Alma Cottage[8]
  • Dial Post House[9]

Dial Post adjoins the Knepp Wildland, a 3,500-acre (1,400 ha) area of former arable and dairy farmland on the Knepp Castle estate that has been devoted to rewilding since 2001, with free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer acting as proxies for the herbivores that once grazed the landscape.[10] In 2020 the estate saw the first white stork chicks known to have hatched in the wild in Britain since 1416.[11] The estate's visitor facilities in the village include the Wilding Kitchen café and restaurant and a farm shop, opened in 2023 in a converted 18th-century Sussex barn;[12] the restaurant was subsequently awarded a Michelin Green Star for sustainable gastronomy.[13]

A new village hall, built with the help of a £50,000 grant from the Sussex Downs and Low Weald LEADER programme, was completed early in 2010.[14]

The ecclesiastical parish centres on an ancient Grade I listed church, St George, in the middle of West Grinstead.[15][16] The parishioners have undertaken to maintain the chancel in exchange for the grant from the glebe estate in 1511 of the church house (see chancel repair liability).[16] Similarly, across that village centre is the listed Catholic Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis.[17]

Transport

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Dial Post originally lay on the A24 road linking London, Epsom, Leatherhead, Horsham and Worthing, between Southwater and Ashington; a straighter bypass now carries the road to the east of the village.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ↑ "neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk 2001 census details". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  2. ↑ Hudson (Editor), T.P.; Baggs, A.P.; Currie, C.R.J.; Elrington, C.R.; Keeling, S.M.; Rowland, A.M. (1986). A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2: Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham. Institute of Historical Research. p. 94. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  3. ↑ T P Hudson (Editor), A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland (1986). "West Grinstead: Economic history". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2: Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham. Institute of Historical Research. pp. 94–99. Retrieved 12 August 2012. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6, Part 2. Victoria County History. 1986. pp. 83–89. Retrieved 18 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Historic England. "Knepp Castle (1010765)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  6. ↑ Historic England. "New Lodge (1026870)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  7. ↑ Historic England. "Hazel Cottage (1181662)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Historic England. "Alma Cottage (1354274)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  9. ↑ Historic England. "Dial Post House (1354247)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Knepp Castle Estate". Rewilding Britain. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  11. ↑ Lees, Alexander C.; Metcalf, Oliver (18 May 2020). "Stork chicks hatch in UK for first time in 600 years – why that's great news for British wildlife". The Conversation. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  12. ↑ "A new restaurant and shop are getting set to open at a world-renowned site near Horsham". Sussex Express. 17 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  13. ↑ Jefferies, Jenny (10 February 2026). "Knepp Estate's Wilding Kitchen Has Won A Green Michelin Star – Here's Why". Country & Town House. Retrieved 8 July 2026.
  14. ↑ Richard Chalk. "Dial Post Village Hall". Rural Development Programme for England. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  15. ↑ Historic England. "St George's Church (1284797)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  16. 1 2 T P Hudson (Editor), A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling, A M Rowland (1986). "West Grinstead: Churches". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2: Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 12 August 2012. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ Historic England. "Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis (1391890)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
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