Rusper is a village and civil parish
in the Horsham District of
West
Sussex
, England
. It
lies north of the town of Horsham and west of Crawley.
Rusper is the centre
of Rusper Parish which covers most of the northern area between
Horsham
and Crawley
.
Rusper is governed by the Horsham District Council based in
Horsham. The parish population at the 2001 census was 1,389
people.
It has a range of local services (mainly located on the High
Street) such as a village shop & post office, a residential
care home, a park, a church, a recreational sports area consisting
of a Football pitch and two Tennis courts (one with basketball
hoops), a hotel, two pubs
The Plough and
The
Star, a village hall, and Rusper Primary School, built in
1872.
Rusper is
very close to London Gatwick Airport
, which is only five miles away. It is on the watershed between the River Arun
to the west and the River
Mole to the east, with predominantly weald clay
soils.
A Benedictine priory was established in the parish c.1200.
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