1 6 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



Rogate, Terwick, Trotton, Chithurst, Iping, Stedham, 

 Woolbeding, and Midhurst. 



Of all the surrounding northward country as far as 

 Harting Combe, the old mansion formerly adjoining 

 Harting Church was the Lord's citadel and strong- 

 hold. In modern times this was called " Harting 

 Place," * but in Edward the Third's time " Tulle- 

 combe" Park.f It was in the centre of that beautiful 

 scenery south of the Churchyard that the great Norman 

 barons, the Husseys, settled their homestead, and en- 

 cased and rebuilt the older church which they found 

 on the spot. The only direct work for God, the 

 Church, still survives, and gives us the history of our 

 village in Henry the Third's reign written in stone. 



* It was suffered by the Carylls to decay, and entirely removed 

 before 1777. 



f Close, 6 Ed. III. : "Hen. Husee and Isabella had a park 

 in Herting called Tullecornbe, belonging to the manor of Herting, 

 with a watermill in the said park" (probably between Wes.t 

 Harting pond and Down Park). 



