Horsham and Surrounding Villages. Quiz

Answer: Christ's Hospital

According to the history of Christ's Hospital on the schools' own website, it was created in the sixteenth century for the education of poor children. Former pupils include: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Barnes Wallis and Sir Colin Davis.
Roedean and Worth Abbey are also public schools in Sussex, but not so close to Horsham.

Answer: Last time a wife was sold in England.

According to several sources (including Henry Burstow: Reminiscences of Horsham) she was sold in Horsham market for 30 shillings to a man named Johnson, who sold his watch to raise the money.
That the sources all list the same or very similar wording causes me to suspect that they are drawn from a common source.

Answer: Military Vehicles

Joe Lyndhurst opened the museum after falling in love with jeeps during World War II, and ran it with his wife until it became too big to manage. Subsequently the collection was sold off.
I remember visiting the museum in the late 1970's but can find few details of it online. There is an open air museum for buildings in Sussex, at Singleton and a Mr Vallence used to store old aircraft very close to Gatwick Airport.

Answer: Percy Byshe Shelley

Shelley's birthplace lies between Warnham and Broadbridge Heath a little to the North of Horsham. The fountain was designed by Angela Conner. The book in the series "Then & Now" entitled Horsham states that it has been renamed Cosmic Cycle, however other pamphlets from the Horsham Society don't mention this.

Answer: Smock

Shipley windmill is an eight-sided smock mill, which is both the largest and youngest windmill in Sussex. The writer Hilaire Belloc at one time owned it and more recently has served as the fictional home of the hero of the BBC Television series Jonathan Creek. A more detailed history of the windmill may be found at www.shipleywindmill.org.uk from where the above information was taken.

Answer: River Arun

Little more than a stream at this point it is possible to walk alongside it as part of a recently developed "Riverside Walk". It was widened and deepened during World War Two as a defensive obstacle in case of invasion. A pillbox from this time still stands opposite the Town Mill and various information panels around the town detail these and other actions taken at the time.
The other options are all rivers in Sussex as well.

Answer: Scarfolkes

According to the information panel in the Carfax, Scarfolkes is derived from 'scarce folks', an area where few people lived.
Fiveoaks is a village a few miles outside Horsham and the Bishopric is another street in Horsham.

Answer: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

The Church is claimed to be the oldest extant building in Horsham and is on the site of a previous Norman church. The graveyard also contains an unusual memorial, "... the grave of the so called 'Indian Princess' whose grave is at right angles to the others because she is buried facing Mecca as a supposed Muslim." (Quote taken from a pamphlet on the memorials and monuments of Horsham, written for the Horsham Society by Dennis Salt)

Answer: First prison to have individual cells for prisoners.

In 1822 a gallows was built outside the prison. The last public execution in the town took place in 1844 and in 1845 the prison was pulled down. The railway line now runs directly through the site.

Answer: Twittens

Twitten, sometimes spelt twittern, is listed in Chambers English Dictionary as being possibly derived from Low German word 'twiete' meaning alley or lane.