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2 unusual facts about St Leonard's Forest


Leonardslee

The name Leonardslee derives from the lea or valley of St Leonard's Forest, one of the ancient forests of the High Weald.

St Leonard's Forest

The forest was larger than the modern parish, effectively the part of the Rape of Bramber in the High Weald including Rusper, Ifield, the eastern part of modern Horsham and Nuthurst.


Bledington

The Church of England parish church of St Leonard dates from 1170: 12th century work includes the nave, pillars, tub font and sanctus bellcote: 13th century south aisle; 14th century windows; 15th century tower, stained glass and tiny chantry chapel: open bell-chamber and ring of six bells.

Chapel St Leonards

The name of the village derives from a chapel at Mumby dedicated to St Leonard; the village history is tied to that of Mumby, both at one time being part of the same ecclesiastical parish.

Christopher Eipper

Christoph Eipper married Harriet Gyles on 15 June 1837 in Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England.

Grateley

The village has two shops, two pubs, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Aspergers Syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.

Marston Bigot

The small stone church, dedicated to St Leonard, was built on the site of an older one and was opened to the public in 1789.

No. 49 Squadron RAF

There is a memorial window to the crew and civilians killed in the crash in St Leonard's Church, Sandridge in Hertfordshire, UK.

St Leonard's Church, Aldrington

The ashes of actor C. Aubrey Smith are interred in his mother's grave in the churchyard of St Leonard's.

St Leonard's Church, Sandridge

It was no later than 1119 that the church was consecrated and dedicated to St Leonard by Herbert de Losinga 1st Bishop of Norwich (he died in 1119) and that Sandridge became a parish.

Velour 100

The second album Of Color Bright used three new vocalists: Tess Wiley of Sixpence None the Richer, Sydney Rentz of Morella's Forest and Karin Oliver, also of His Name Is Alive.


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