Midhurst is a market town, church [3] as well as civil parish in West Sussex, England. It rests on the River Rother 20 miles (32 km) inland from the English Channel, as well as 12 miles (19 kilometres) north of the county town of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as Middeherst, suggesting "Middle wooded hillside", or "(area) amongst the wooded hillsides". It stems from the Old English words midd (adjective) or mid (preposition), suggesting "in the middle", plus hyrst, "a woody hillside". The Norman St. Ann's Castle days from regarding 1120, although the structures are all that can now be seen. The castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and also St. Denis, together with South Pond, the previous fish-pond for the castle, are the only 3 structures left from this very early duration. The parish church is the earliest building in Midhurst. Just across the River Rother, in the parish of Easebourne, is the destroy of the Tudor Cowdray House.