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It is believed the name of the village came from the Anglo-Saxon word “Bolne” meaning “a village (or high place) near marsh”, as the area is on high ground in an area that was marshy. Saxon road timbers have been excavated in The Street and there is a suggestion that this was an old route north into
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Ryecroft cutting east/west. Outside of this area the village extends south of the A272
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thickets, with tall ornamental conifers overtopping in places. The name is a corruption of 'spring cuts', i.e. coppice wood, and coppice survives, but there seems to be no big native timber. Opposite
Colwood Park House, on the south side of Cross Colwood Lane, is the archaic Colwood Meadow
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down Bolney Chapel Road and to the East of the A23 in
Crossways. The Bolney crossroads of the A23 and A272 has always been an accident black spot, and even with the building of the A23 flyover the area still has a high level of accidents and incidents on its stretch of the A23.
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Village was in two parts the main village was clustered around the church and to the north there was the Common. House building up The Street during the 20th century joined these two parts together.
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The village has a relatively high number of listed properties, with two main clusters at the south, around the church and to the north, in what was originally the Common. In terms of parishes,
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For pre-school education there is Bolney Under Fives Pre-School, for 2 to 5 year olds, and the Ark
Nursery for 3 and 4 year olds, which follows the Early Years Curriculum.
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Century a windmill existed on the Common.
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335:http://www.bolney.com/
248:Postcode district
135:35 miles (56 km)
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1170:at Wikimedia Commons
1111:Bangs, David (2018).
881:Ansty and Staplefield
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1461:Mid Sussex District
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1134:"Bolney CEP School"
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533:St Leonard's Forest
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437:Burgess Hill
411:district of
405:civil parish
400:
399:
144:Civil parish
92:1,209
18:
1399:Staplefield
1389:Sharpthorne
1209:West Sussex
962:Mims Davies
901:Shermanbury
772:TQ 244 236,
603:Nightingale
541:English Oak
413:West Sussex
386: /
360:West Sussex
291:West Sussex
186:West Sussex
94:2001 Census
71:West Sussex
1455:Categories
1419:Warninglid
1205:Mid Sussex
987:References
936:Governance
783:TQ 251 239
759:TQ 245 251
746:Crab Apple
737:TQ 243 247
731:TQ 242 248
725:TQ 241 234
719:TQ 232 234
713:TQ 241 241
707:TQ 239 244
690:TQ 255 231
684:TQ 254 242
678:TQ 255 255
668:, off the
657:TQ 240 210
643:TQ 247 219
629:TQ 249 219
619:TQ 264 221
599:Fieldfares
594:TQ 250 232
588:TQ 254 218
567:TQ 265 255
561:TQ 257 243
549:TQ 261 227
521:Weald clay
517:High Weald
425:Chichester
409:Mid Sussex
371:50°59′23″N
322:Mid Sussex
204:South East
168:Mid Sussex
89:Population
1349:Newtimber
1344:Lindfield
1319:Hickstead
1309:Handcross
1294:Cuckfield
1284:Copthorne
925:Education
624:Bluebells
433:A272 road
431:with the
374:0°12′13″W
298:Ambulance
238:Post town
1414:Walstead
1409:Twineham
1394:Slaugham
1364:Pyecombe
1359:Poynings
1314:Hassocks
1269:Balcombe
1259:Ardingly
1249:Albourne
906:Twineham
837:Slaugham
790:(2012).
670:Brighton
652:Twineham
529:Hastings
494:Slaugham
490:Twineham
429:A23 road
421:Brighton
160:District
121:TQ261227
1299:Fulking
1279:Clayton
1144:24 July
1080:24 July
1020:6 April
859:Cowfold
672:coast.
666:Channel
486:Cowfold
451:History
407:in the
355:England
331:Website
220:England
214:Country
129:•
104:Density
102:•
1339:Keymer
1274:Bolney
1168:Bolney
1119:
870:Bolney
748:and a
417:London
401:Bolney
279:Sussex
274:Police
196:Region
151:Bolney
131:London
63:Bolney
27:Bolney
1254:Ansty
1216:Towns
1014:(PDF)
1007:(PDF)
968:Sport
777:Rhodi
264:01444
1146:2012
1117:ISBN
1082:2012
1051:2016
1022:2009
535:and
515:and
286:Fire
253:RH17
81:Area
513:Low
506:Map
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