Billingshurst

This was in Billingshurst in Sussex, a charming town in one of my favourite parts of England.

Archive 2008-03-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

The drive from Billingshurst to Bath takes you along the edge of the North Downs, as you cut across the south of England towards Winchester.

Bluebell woods sbisson 2004

Through Billingshurst and Pulborough and over Stopham bridge, they travelled at full speed.

Maid in Waiting 2004

And, moving at forty miles an hour along the road to Billingshurst, he recalled being fetched by old Gradman at six miles an hour from Paddington Station to Park Lane in a growler with wet straw on the floor — over sixty years ago — when old Gradman himself was only a boy of twenty, trying to grow side-whiskers and writing round-hand all day.

Swan Song 2004

Sussex to take the same route: he would probably prefer to cover the county literally strip by strip -- the Forest strip from Tunbridge Wells to Horsham, the Weald strip from Billingshurst to Burwash, the Downs strip from Racton to Beachy Head -- rather than follow my course, north to south, and south to north, across the land.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

This boy will, I daresay, perform his part at Billingshurst, or at some place not far from it.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Before passing to the east of Horsham, something ought to be said of one at least of the villages of the south-west, namely, Billingshurst, on

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Billingshurst, and we may follow it for a while on our way to Rudgwick, near the county's border.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

One returns to Horsham from Billingshurst through Itchingfield, where the new Christ's Hospital has been built in the midst of green fields: a glaring red-brick settlement which the fastidiously urban ghost of

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

But 'twas a Billingshurst lad got her, d'ye see? '

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921