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  2. Haywards Heath - Wikipedia

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    Haywards Heath ( / ˈheɪwərdz ˈhiːθ / ⓘ HAY-wərdz HEETH) is a town in West Sussex, England, 36 miles (58 km) south of London, 14 miles (23 km) north of Brighton, 13 miles (21 km) south of Gatwick Airport and 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the county town, Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the ...

  3. Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray - Wikipedia

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    Leased by him in 1907, purchased 1912. Built 19th century and extended 1912-20 by Pearson. Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC (15 July 1856 – 1 May 1927), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal ...

  4. Brantridge Park - Wikipedia

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    Brantridge Park. Coordinates: 0°9′52.64″W. Brantridge Park. Brantridge Park, Balcombe, West Sussex, England is a 19th-century country house, formerly one of the lesser royal residences. It is a Grade II listed building.

  5. Community of the Holy Cross - Wikipedia

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    Community of the Holy Cross. The Community of the Holy Cross (CHC) is an Anglican religious order founded in 1857 by Elizabeth Neale (sister of John Mason Neale ), at the invitation of Father Charles Fuge Lowder, to work with the poor around St Peter's London Docks in Wapping. [1] The Community moved to a large convent in Haywards Heath.

  6. Cowdray House - Wikipedia

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    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. It was largely destroyed by fire on 24 September 1793 ...

  7. Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray - Wikipedia

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    Michael Orlando Weetman Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray, DL (born 17 June 1944) [1] of Cowdray Park in West Sussex, is a landowner in West Sussex with 16,500 acres (6,700 ha) and is a major shareholder of the FTSE 100 company Pearson plc, the construction, now publishing, company founded by his ancestor in the 19th century.

  8. Viscount Cowdray - Wikipedia

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    Viscount Cowdray, of Cowdray in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] [3] It was created in 1917 for the industrialist Weetman Pearson, 1st Baron Cowdray, head of the Pearson conglomerate. He had already been created a Baronet, of Paddockhurst, in the Parish of Worth, in the County of Sussex, and of Airlie ...

  9. Cowdray Park, West Sussex - Wikipedia

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    A picture of Cowdray Park published in 1880. The park lies near Easebourne, West Sussex, in the South Downs National Park. The estate belongs to Viscount Cowdray, whose family have owned it since 1909. It has a golf course, and it offers clay pigeon shooting and corporate activity days, as well as the more traditional activities of agriculture ...