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Lurgashall is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is 6.5 km (4 ml) north west of Petworth and just inside the new South Downs National Park. The church of St Laurence, The Noah's Ark pub, the old school and several old houses are built around a picturesque village green which contains the village cricket pitch. In the 2001 census the parish covered 21 km² and had 220 households with a total population of 581. 271 residents were economically active. ==History== Although there was, almost certainly, an inhabited settlement in the village of Lurgashall in Roman times, the name is Saxon. It means ''aula'' or Hall of Leotegar who, in about 495 AD, found a convenient, and probably inhabited, clearing in the Wealden forest in which he decided to settle. In due course of time, Leotegar's descendants were converted to Christianity by the followers of St Wilfred and built the first St Laurence's Church. Although the Church has had many additions over the years, it still retains some evidence of the original Saxon structure. The village had become almost extinct in 1100, and finds no mention in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Norman Conquest the King gave the Lurgashall area to a Norman family called Alta Rippa who built a Manor House there in about 1100. The Manor House itself has not survived but the area that the estate occupied is now Park Farm, which gets its name from the Deer Park which the Alta Rippa family established in about 1200. The coming of the Manor revived the village's fortunes and it grew in importance throughout the feudal period. An account of what it was like to live in the village in the early part of the 20th century is given in the book ''A view of Edwardian Lurgashall'' by H.S.Roots. It was re-published in 2000〔A view of Edwardian Lurgashall, H S Roots, Window Press, Petworth. 2000〕 and is based on the memories of a child called Harold who came to the village aged four in 1899. His father was the headmaster of the village school for 10yrs and the book is an account of Harold's time growing up in the village and giving accounts of rural life as it was then in what was a fairly isolated village on the northern outskirts of Petworth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lurgashall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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