Midhurst Deanery is a Deanery of the Church of England comprising 22 churches in the Rother Valley between Midhurst and Petersfield.
The town was founded in the 18th century and named after Peter Beckford, a slave owner who settled the Roaring River Estate.
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The reggae artist Winston Hubert McIntosh was born in Petersfield, and later on, when he lived in Jamaica's capital Kingston, he changed his name to Peter McIntosh (Peter Tosh).
John Dawnay, 5th Viscount Downe (1764–1832), MP for Petersfield and Wootton Basset, son of the above
Halswelle lived in his later years at Stoner House, Steep, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he was a ruling councillor of the Primrose League.
National Cycle Route 22 (NCR22) runs from Banstead to Brockenhurst in the New Forest via Dorking, Guildford, Farnham, Petersfield, Havant, Portsmouth, Ryde, Yarmouth and Lymington.
Oliver Vachell (c.1518-64), of Buriton, near Petersfield, Hampshire and North Marston, Buckimghamshire, was an English politician.
Actor Jude Law currently resides in Ramsdean with his children attending the nearby Bedales School in Petersfield.