Brooks Green

Parson's Brook is a minor river (brook) located in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is a tributary to the River Adur.

Newbuildings Place is a 17th-century Artisan Mannerist house near Shipley, West Sussex. The house is a former home of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, who is buried in the grounds of the house. The building is currently owned by John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton, and is Grade I listed.

Barns Green is a village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Billingshurst to Itchingfield road 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) north of Billingshurst. The village falls within the parish of Itchingfield and is surrounded by smaller communities of Brooks Green, Dragons Green and Bashurst Hill. Barns Green is a rural community, with a village shop and post office, pub, primary school, sports club, campsite, cafe, fishery, village hall, riding school and village green. It has a number of locally based community clubs including toddler group, youth club, brownies, amateur dramatics, book club, and several sports clubs.

Billingshurst is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Coolham is a small village in the civil parish of Shipley and the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the crossroads of the A272 and B2139 roads 2.8 miles (4.6 km) southeast of Billingshurst. At the crossroads is an old timber-framed inn, the Selsey Arms, formerly the Duke's Head, and before that The King of Prussia.During the Second World War there was an Advanced Landing Ground nearby called RAF Coolham, used to support the D-Day landings. This was only in use for about eighteen months, and had almost no permanent buildings. The airmen lived under canvas. Both Polish and British airmen were stationed there, and there is a monument outside the Selsey Arms that lists the names of those who died. The land has long since been reclaimed for agricultural purposes, but there is still a footpath around the field, with trees planted at intervals to commemorate the dead airmen. Each tree has a name plaque attached.There was once a prominent Quaker community in Coolham, and the "Blue Idol" meeting house, a timber-framed building, still exists. William Penn, who earlier had founded Pennsylvania in America, was closely involved in its establishment, and is believed to have worshipped there. The local junior school was founded as the Coolham British School (later Coolham Primary School) in 1889 by the Quakers. In the mid-twentieth century it moved to its present site, where it is known as the William Penn Primary School.Coolham is in the ancient parish of Shipley, which adjoins the A24, near the ruin of Knepp Castle. The castle dates back to medieval times, and was used as a hunting lodge for King John. The site of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Shipley, dates back to the Knights Templar, and close by is Shipley Windmill, which was once owned by the Sussex writer Hilaire Belloc during the first half of the twentieth century. The windmill was featured as the home of Jonathan Creek in a TV series that ran on UK television from the late 1990s.

Royal Air Force Coolham or more simply RAF Coolham is a former Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground located in West Sussex, England. The following units were here at some point: No. 129 Squadron RAF (1944) No. 133 Airfield RAF No. 133 (Polish) (Fighter) Wing RAF No. 135 (Fighter) Wing RAF No. 222 Squadron RAF (1944) No. 306 Polish Fighter Squadron (1944) No. 315 Polish Fighter Squadron (1944) No. 349 (Belgian) Squadron RAF (1944) No. 411 (Polish) Repair & Salvage Unit No. 485 Squadron RNZAF (1944) No. 1314 Mobile Wing RAF Regiment No. 2701 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 2722 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 2800 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 2829 Squadron RAF Regiment

Dragon's Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Shipley, and the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. The hamlet is 5 miles (8 km) south from the market and district town of Horsham, and just north from the A272 road which runs locally from the large village of Billingshurst to the town of Haywards Heath. The parish village of Shipley is just under 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south. The hamlet is centered on the George and Dragon public house.

The Downs Link is a 36.7 miles (59.1 km) path and bridleway linking the North Downs Way at St. Martha's Hill in Surrey with the South Downs Way near Steyning in West Sussex and on via the Coastal Link to Shoreham-by-Sea. This is part of the National Cycle Network as National Route 223.

King's Mill or Vincent's Mill, Shipley, West Sussex, England, is a smock mill built in 1879.

Itchingfield is a small village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Barns Green to Broadbridge Heath road 2.7 miles (4.3 km) southwest of Horsham. The main settlement in the parish is Barns Green. The village's origins may lie with the Romans. This is suggested by the discovery of tiles in the parish.

Coneyhurst is a hamlet in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the A272 road 1.6 miles (2.5 km) southeast of Billingshurst (where the 2011 population of the hamlet is included). It is named after the old words for "Rabbit - wood".

Shipley is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the A272 road 6 miles (10 kilometres) north-east of Storrington. The parish includes the village of Coolham and the hamlets of Dragon's Green, Brooks Green and Broomer's Corner. Shipley is first mentioned in a charter of 1073 as Scapeleia, and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sepelei. The name derives from the Old English scēap ('sheep') and lēah ('open ground, such as meadow, pasture, or arable land'). Thus it means 'sheep-clearing' or 'sheep-pasture'.The western River Adur flows through the village, where it meets a significant tributary, Lancing Brook. The parish has a land area of 3,125 hectares (7,720 acres). In the 2001 census 1075 people lived in 448 households of whom 596 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population included the hamlet of Coolham and increased to a total of 1,147.Shipley was home to Hilaire Belloc who in 1906 purchased Kings Land, with a house, 5 acres (2 ha) and Shipley Windmill, which was used in the television series Jonathan Creek as Creek's residence.The churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin is the burial place of composer John Ireland (1879–1962).