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Ashurst, West Sussex
The village itself is small and lies on the eastern side of the parish and was originally based around a crossroads on what is now Church Lane which was once part of an ancient droveway running south-north. At some point the settlement drifted eastwards to another old droveway that is now the B2135. There are two other smaller settlements within the parish, Horsebridge Common to the south and Bines Green to the north east. Both lie on the same road and were based around farms built on the edge of a couple of small commons. The rest of the population is scattered around smallholdings and farms in the more wooded western half of the parish.
The parish was built around a number of old droveways which ran north-south connecting the estates near the foot of the Downs with old wooded pastures in the Weald. One of them, the B2135, forms the main road through the parish and links Steyning to Horsham. Another old droveway branched off that road near Wappingthorn Wood and ran towards West Grinstead and originally provided the main street of the old settlement. However, the section north of Church lane to the Lock Estate is now a bridleway whilst that to the south from Sweethill Farm to Spithandle Lane no longer exists, possibly stopped up when the parallel B2135 was turnpiked around 1811 as it is marked on both Yeakell & Gardner's 1873 map and the first OS map though not on the 1844 tithe map. There are just four other roads open to vehicular traffic in the current parish; Golden Lane links the B2135 to Church Lane; School Lane runs parallel to the south; Pepper's Lane heads west from Church Lane eventually joining the A24 at Dial Post; Spithandle Lane also heads west from the B2135 at Horsebridge Common and meanders its way to Wiston. A number of old bridleways also still traverse the parish.
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