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Petworth Fair. On 20 November (St. Edmund's day) each year, the market square is closed off to traffic so that a fun fair can be held. This is the modern survival of an ancient custom. In earlier centuries the fair lasted several days and may have been wholly or partly held on a field on the south side of the town called fairfield.
Upshur Street Art and Craft Fair [23] Petworth Community Market, a farmer's market, is held along 9th Street between Upshur and Taylor Streets weekly on Saturdays from May through October. [24] Petworth Jazz Project is a free music series of jazz performances held at Petworth Park at 8th and Taylor Streets from May through September. [25]
Horn Fair Day 2007; cricket in a steady drizzle. Ebernoe Horn Fair is held in the small Sussex village of Ebernoe, the location of which is about five miles north of Petworth (grid reference). The fair is held annually on Saint James's Day, 25 July. The tradition is centuries old though it appears to have been revived in 1864 after a long lapse.
Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset , and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin . [ 2 ]
Ebernoe Common is a national nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest [3] managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust. Among its ancient woodland, glades and ponds it supports a diversity of plants and animals, including 14 out of 16 species of bat which occur in the UK, including the rare Bechstein's and Barbastelle bats.
Ebernoe Common is a 233.9-hectare (578-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ebernoe, north of Petworth in West Sussex. [1] [2] It is a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I, [3] a national nature reserve [4] and a Special Area of Conservation. [5] It is managed by the Sussex Wildlife Trust [6]
The Petworth Emigration Scheme was an initiative sponsored by the Earl of Egremont and promoted by Thomas Sockett, Anglican Rector of Petworth. [1] It sent around 1800 working-class people from southern England to Upper Canada between 1832 and 1837.
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