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Midhurst is a community in the Township of Springwater, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is the county seat , and with nearly 3,000 people, [ 1 ] the largest population centre in Springwater. It is location of the Barrie Baycats of the Intercounty Baseball League .
Midhurst (LSWR) railway station was opened on 1 September 1864 by the London and South Western Railway, the terminus of the line from Petersfield, serving the Market town of Midhurst in West Sussex. The station was closed on 13 July 1925, [ 3 ] after the LSWR amalgamated with other railways to create the Southern Railway and services ...
The member of parliament for Guildford, Sir Anthony Brown, donated a site in the Market Square to the burgesses of Midhurst for the purposes of erecting a market hall in 1551. [2] The building was designed in the neoclassical style , built in buff brick with an ashlar front and was completed later that year. [ 3 ]
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 Easebourne, just east of Midhurst, West Sussex standing on the north bank of the River Rother.
Midhurst railway station used to serve the market town of Midhurst in the English county of West Sussex. The first railway to reach the town was a branch line from Petersfield opened by the London & South Western Railway on 1 September 1864.
Midhurst (/ ˈ m ɪ d h u r s t /) is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester District in West Sussex, England.It lies on the River Rother, 20 miles (30 km) inland from the English Channel and 12 miles (19 km) north of Chichester.
In Midhurst, however, there was still no single proprietor by the middle of the 18th century. The most influential figure was The Viscount Montagu , who in 1754 claimed to own 104 burgages, but Sir John Peachey owned 40 and there were more than 70 independent burgage holders.
The origins of Midhurst Rother College date back to 1672 when, founder of education in Midhurst, Gilbert Hannam, set up a free school for twelve poor Protestant boys. The first classroom was in a loft, but later he moved the school to his own home which stood next door to the site on which the current College building is situated.