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Highways & Byways in Sussex

CHAPTER II
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Beyond Easebourne, on the banks of the Rother, is Woolbeding, amid lush grass and foliage, as green a spot as any in green England.
[Sidenote: MR.

LA THANGUE'S HOME] On the eastern side of the town (with a diversion into Queen Elizabeth's sombre wood-walk) one may come by the side of the river part of the way to West Lavington, which stands high on a slope facing the Downs, with pine woods immediately beneath it, perhaps as fair a site as any church can claim.

The grave of Richard Cobden, the Free Trader, a native of Heyshott, near by, is in the churchyard.

Here, in 1850, Henry Edward Manning, afterwards Cardinal, preached his last sermon for the Church of England.

It is, indeed, Manning country, for besides being curate and rector of Woollavington with Graffham (four or five miles to the south-east) from 1833 until his secession, he was for nine years Archdeacon of Chichester; he married Miss Sargent, daughter of the late rector and sister of Mrs.Samuel Wilberforce of Woollavington; and while rector, he rebuilt both churches.


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