Midhurst is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester District in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother, 20 miles inland from the English Channel and 12 miles north of Chichester.
Midhurst from the south
The Old Library, Midhurst, now the Town Council offices
Cowdray House by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm 1781, from site of modern Polo Ground. St. Ann's Hill is in background, just to right of the House.
Cowdray House consists of the ruins of one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of the great palaces and country houses of that time. It is situated in the parish of Eas
Midhurst
…early period. The parish church is the oldest building in Midhurst. Just across the River Rother, in the parish of Easebourne, is the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House. The former parliamentary constituency of Midhurst is now an electoral ward of the parliamentary constituency of Arundel and South Downs, and was…
The ruins of Cowdray House with the three-storey gatehouse on the left
Painting of Cowdray House circa 1790 before its decay.
The encampment of the English forces near Portsmouth, together with a view of the English and French fleets at the commencement of the action between them on the XIXst of July MDXLV,1544
The Departure of King Henry VIII from Calais, on 25 July 1544, Subtitled 'The Meting of the Kinge by S'r Antony Brown Upon the Hill Betweene Callis and Morguison