Bedham
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| Bedham | |
  Bedham shown within West Sussex |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| District | Chichester District |
| Shire county | West Sussex |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Dialling code | 01798 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| List of places: UK • England • West Sussex | |
Bedham is a hamlet 4 kilometres (2½ miles) east of Petworth in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.
Bedham consists of a farm, a derelict Victorian school, and a scattering of houses set high on a wooded sandstone ridge of the western weald, at 150 metres above sea level. To the west Flexham Park is an area of commercial woodland, with large areas of chestnut coppice, and south of this is a sandstone quarry at Bognor Common. To the northeast are large areas of semi-natural forest, left unmanaged as a nature reserve, called The Mens. South of The Mens is Hawkhurst Court[1], a country house used as a Canadian army HQ in the buildup to the Normandy Invasion during World war II, then as a private school, before becoming private housing in the 1980s. The composer Sir Edward Elgar lived nearby at Brinkwells, which was originally owned by the artist Rex Vicat Cole, and The Studio where Elgar composed the Cello Concert was moved up to the village and now stands as a separate house. Ford Maddox Ford, author of "The Good Soldier" also lived in the village for a time.
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