Dial Post

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History

The origin of the name is uncertain, Dial Post house, a large building dated 1712 post-dates the name of settlement as do Dial Post farm and Dial Post fields which were named in the early 18th century.[2] Dial Post farm comprised Script error: No such module "convert". in c. 1710 when it was leased for 21 years.[3] A public house, the Crown, is recorded as having been established as early as the 1600s.[4] The ruins of medieval Knepp Castle lie between Dial Post and Southwater by the A24.[5]

Today

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The Green

There is one public house, the Crown Inn, along with a café and barbecue at the Knepp Wilding Kitchen, a new development at Blakers Yard offering commercial space and dwellings, and a Garden Centre, but no church in Dial Post. The village centre retains four of the area's listed buildings, all of Grade II:

  • New Lodge[6]
  • Hazel Cottage[7]
  • Alma Cottage[8]
  • Dial Post House[9]

A new village hall, built with the help of a £50,000 grant from the Sussex Downs and Low Weald LEADER programme, was completed early in 2010.[10]

The ecclesiastical parish centres on an ancient Grade I listed church, St George in the middle of West Grinstead[11][12] The parishioners have undertaken to maintain the chancel in exchange for the grant from the glebe estate in 1511 of the church house, see chancel repair liability.[12] Similarly, across that village centre is the listed Catholic Church of our Lady of Consolation and St Francis.[13]

Transport

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