Billingshurst

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Billingshurst

Coordinates51.02°, -0.45°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Billingshurst is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village lies on the A29 road at its crossroads with the A272, 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Horsham and 5.5 miles (9 km) north-east of Pulborough.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Percy Bysshe Shelley

British Romantic poet (1792–1822)

Anna Massey

British actress (1937–2011)

Alfred Shrubb

English middle and long distance runner

Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield

British politician (1916-2007)

Killa Kela

British musician

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Charles Frend

British film editor and director (1909–1977)

Joan Fry

British tennis player (1906-1985)

Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside

British politician (1879-1958)

Anton Dolin

English ballet dancer and choreographer (1904-1983)

Jolyon Palmer

British racing driver

Cecil Hurst

British judge (1870-1963)

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Hammond Innes

British writer (1913-1998)

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Mark Rowland

British athletics competitor (born 1963)

William Daniel Conybeare

English geologist and palaeontologist (1787-1857)

Thomas Medwin

English poet and translator (1788-1869)

Harry Enfield

English actor, comedian, writer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Billingshurst

Billingshurst

1969

Billingshurst, Sussex

1971

Crawley and Horsham, Cranleigh and Billingshurst

Ordnance Survey · 1997

Crawley & Horsham : Cranleigh & Billingshurst

Ordnance Survey · 2003

Billingshurst and Wisborough Green

Wendy Lines · 2005

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