Loxwood

Loxwood

Loxwood Street
Loxwood

 Loxwood shown within West Sussex
Area  18.24 km2 (7.04 sq mi) [1]
Population 1,341 [1] 2001 Census
    - Density  74 /km2 (190 /sq mi)
OS grid reference TQ038314
    - London  34 miles (55 km) NNE 
Parish Loxwood
District Chichester
Shire county West Sussex
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BILLINGSHURST
Postcode district RH14
Dialling code 01403
Police Sussex
Fire West Sussex
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament Horsham
Website http://www.loxwood.org/
List of places: UK • England • West Sussex

Loxwood is a small village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, within the Low Weald. The Wey and Arun Canal passes to the East and South of the village.

The 2001 census recorded a population of 1341 people living in 660 households. 536 people were economically active.

There is a primary school, village hall, children's playing facilities, a sports centre, two churches, a pub The Onslow Arms and a small number of shops.

The village was once the centre for a small Christian sect, the Society of Dependants, also known as Cokelers. They built their first chapel in the village.

Lawrence Durrell, the renowned author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of interrelated novels that take as their subject matter the psychology of love and the shifting façades that human beings present to one another, lived here from 1933 to 1934. Durrell, along with his first wife Nancy and another young couple, George and Pam Wilkinson, fled Bloomsbury to live a pastoral bohemian existence. It was here that Durrell, then in his early twenties, wrote what became his first published novel, The Pied Piper of Lovers.[2]

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Schools

Loxwood Primary School was reported to have 155 children on the school roll in 2001[3]. However many of these children are actually not from Loxwood itself, and are instead from surrounding villages, this has been attributed to the closing of other, adjacent, village schools. A nursery school is adjacent to the school.

Sports and leisure

The parish has an improving football team which has been promoted six times in nine years now playing in the Sussex county league division 2.

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