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The “Parish” of Rogate which was formed as said earlier, in AD 1894, is a moderately large parish of 4,873 acres, with a population of about 1500 soles. sitting on the Hampshire and West Sussex border of the county. The main block or area, consisting of some 3 miles from north to south, with a breadth of 2½ miles, and a narrow projection at the north running for another 2 miles. . The road from the centre of Rogate village running south over the river Rother at Haben Bridge continues onward winding its way to our neighbouring Parish, that of Harting. |
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The Parish of Rogate is set in the South of England, sitting on the West Sussex & Hampshire boarder and comprises of a group of small village communities, that of Hillbrow, Rogate, Rake, Terwick & was formed in AD 1894. |
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Old Drawing of Rogate C.E. Primary School. |
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The first Rogate School was founded by Colonel Charles Wyndham in 1841, and the original building still stands in Sandy Lane. In 1867, a "National School" was built on the present site, and on the 23rd April 1948, Rogate School became a "Controlled" School. In 1962, the school was re-modelled and enlarged, although most of the original building was retained, forming the present school hall, office & staffroom. Up the stairs leading off the hallway there are three attractive, well sized classrooms, cloakroom, toilets and library. Outside there is a good sized learner swimming pool plus extensive playing fields, with an environmental study area. The school benefits greatly from a large amount of individual user “IT” equipment plus the very latest computer controlled teaching aid “White Boards” electronically controlled blackboards in every classroom. |
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Rake is a small rural first school on the edge of West Sussex for children from Reception to Year 5. We have great facilities including a new hall, we also have an outdoor heated swimming pool and an adventurous play area.
Classes are small & taught in well equipped classrooms with some of the latest ICT facilities. Come and see for yourself! |
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Photo of Rake C.E. First School. |
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Abstract taken from Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts., Middlesex, Kent, Surrey & Sussex, AD1867. which made the following observations of the Parish of Rogate:~ ROGATE is a large parish, in the Western division of the county, Dumpford hundred, Chichester rape, diocese and archdeaconry, Midhurst union, county court district and rural deanery, 4 miles east from Petersfield, and 6 west from Midhurst, about 5 miles in length, but very irregular in breadth. This manor, though not particularised in the "Domesday Survey," or better known as the “Doomsday Book” may be taken as part of the manor of Hertinges. In the reign of Edward III. it was held by Ralph de Camois, who obtained a charter for holding; a fair: it was subsequently held, by one Rademel, and in the reign of Henry VIII. it was granted by the Crown to William Earl of Southampton. There are several manors or reputed manors within the parish, one of which, comprising nearly the whole parish. is Wenham, the property of Col. Charles Wyndham. The church of St. Bartholomew is a small and ancient structure. The register commences in 1558. The living is a vicarage, value £212 per annum, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. Henry Haddon Greene, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford. Here is a private school, supported by the Hon. Mrs. Carnegie. An annual pleasure fair is held on the 27th of September. The seats in the neighbourhood are Rogate Lodge, Fair Oak, and Fyning House. The parish contains 4,873 acres; the population in 1861 was 990. |
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Whilst William Cobbett, renown for his descriptive travels, said in his journal dated Saturday 12th November 1825 of Rogate Village itself:~ At about four miles from Petersfield we passed through a village called Rogate. When we came into the village of Rogate, I saw a little group of persons standing before a blacksmith's shop. The churchyard was on the other side of the road, surrounded by a low wall. The earth of the churchyard was about four feet and a half higher than the common level of the ground round about it; and you may see, by the nearness of the church windows to the ground, that this bed of earth has been made by the innumerable burials that have taken place in it. The group, consisting of the blacksmith, the wheelwright, perhaps, and three or four others, appeared to me to be in a deliberative mood. So I said, looking significantly at the churchyard, "It has taken a pretty many thousands of your forefathers to raise that ground up so high." "Yes, sir," said one of them. "And," said I, "for about nine hundred years those who built that church thought about religion very differently from what we do." "Yes," said another. "And," said I, "do you think that all those who made that heap there are gone to the devil?" I got no answer to this. "At any rate," added I, "they never worked for a pound and a half of bread a day." They looked hard at me, and then looked hard at one another; and I, having trotted off, looked round at the first turning, and saw them looking after us still. I should suppose that the church was built about seven or eight hundred years ago, that is to say, the present church; for the first church built upon this spot was, I dare say, erected more than a thousand years ago. If I had had time, I should have told this group that, before the Protestant Reformation, the labourers of Rogate received four pence a day from Michaelmas to Lady-day; five pence a day from Lady-day to Michaelmas, except in harvest and grass-mowing time, when able labourers had seven pence a day; and that, at this time, bacon was not so much as a halfpenny a pound : and, moreover, that the parson of the parish maintained out of the tithes all those persons in the parish that were reduced to indigence by means of old age or other cause of inability to labour. I should have told them this, and, in all probability, a great deal more, but I had not time; and, besides, they will have an opportunity of reading all about it in my little book called the History of the Protestant Reformation . |
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A beautiful drawing of a stone cottage by the river at Haben Bridge reproduced from a drawing by Local Artist, Linda Ellingham. |
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Schooling: We have 2 Primary Schools, Rogate C.E. Primary School which was built in 1868 & the second is Rake C.E. First School and both are still going strong. We have beautiful Churches & Chapels, fantastic countryside to be walked and enjoyed but the Parish of Rogate is not only about the churches, the schools or even the local Pubs, mind you we have 3 helping to keep us jolly, there's the White Horse in Rogate itself, the Jolly Drover at Hillbrow & the Sun inn at Rake all offering great food as well as great ales, but its more than the sum of its parts, its more about THE COMMUNITY as a whole. We have a great many clubs & societies to fill in what little spare time we all have these days, Have a look at the section marked “Names & Numbers” for a more detailed listing of People, Pubs and Clubs & things to do and see plus all the help & services offered in and around the Parish of Rogate. Enjoy! |
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With the famous (moor infamous with the Highway Robbers of years gone by) but now replaced with a by-pass further over into Hampshire is the old London to Portsmouth coaching road, lying to the west of the Parish with the village of Rake & Hillbrow forming part of the county boundary of West Sussex on our side & Liss in the county of Hampshire, on the other side. More to the North of the parish is chiefly woodland, including Langley, Coldharbor Woods and Harting Combe, which was an outlier of Harting Manor, By the way, the word “PARISH” in England means “a political division of a county for local, civil government, usually but not always, corresponding to the ecclesiastical parish”. |
