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Loxwood
Loxwood shown within West Sussex |
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Area | 18.24 km2 (7.04 sq mi) [1] |
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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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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.
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.