More recent notable residents have included the newsreader Reginald Bosanquet and the advertising guru Paul Arden.
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An agreement of 1769 between the owner of the manor, William Mitford of Pitshill at Tillington, and the tenants provided for the enclosure of common land to create woodland managed as coppice, although the areas involved are not specified.
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In 1981 the Royal Logistic Corps considered the area for practising helicopter insertions of freight due to the hilly wooded nature of the area.
He built Bedham school near Fittleworth, which was later used as a church and is now derelict.