During our Petworth visits, we spent two nights at nearby Midhurst, a beautiful old town we had not seen before...
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At the Grange Carpark...2L a day |
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By the wisteria at The Spread Eagle |
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A Midhurst institution |
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Since... |
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1430...and with plenty of documentation...nearly
600 years of ownership records, lists of guests,
including British royalty, and, infamously, von
Ribbentrop and Goering, in July of 1939 |
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Bygone politics |
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In Midhurst's impressive little town museum, a depiction of
Cowdry Hall, a Tudor structure, which burned in 1793 |
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In the museum |
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Sic transit, Gloria...the sanitarium of yore...now, luxury apartments |
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"By Order of the Magistrates, All Vagrants Found in this Parish
will be apprehended and sent to prison"...should we be concerned? |
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Cowdry Hall |
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In its walled garden |
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Another view |
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Scone cake in a Midhurst bakery |
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1660; nice, interesting place |
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