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