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Tangmere is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. The village is located three miles (5 km) northeast of Chichester, but the parish is long and narrow and stretches to the southeast from the village. The parish has a land area of 467.3 hectares (1,154 acres). In the 2001 census 2,462 people lived in 963 households. At the 2011 Census the population was 2,625. [edit] HistoryThe original Saxon village lies a mile south of the Roman road of Stane Street, which linked Londinium [London] with "Noviomagus Reginorum", now known as Chichester. In 677 the controversial Bishop of York, Wilfrid (later Saint Wilfrid), came to Selsey and converted the South Saxons to Christianity. In 680 a charter, possibly by the king, states: “I Caedwalla... have granted his brethren serving God at the church of St Andrew... the land of 10 hides which is called Tangmere”. A hide equated to 120 acres (49 hectares). The Domesday Survey records that Tangmere had a population of around 120, with the stone church of St. Andrew built after the Norman conquest. Originally built of timber, the Saxon church was replaced in 1100 by a stone and timber building. Difficult to date precisely, the building incorporates scavenged and reused stone, including pre-Christian carved figures and Roman bricks, while the size of the yew tree by the present door suggests an ancient sacred site. The church was added to in both the 12th century and in the Victorian era. In 1341 King Edward II granted the new Archbishop of Canterbury the right to hold a fair at Tangmere on St Andrew's Day. The event is still held by the church every autumn, resulting in the source of the church's name. The Manor of Tangmere was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury until 1542, when Henry VIII claimed possession. It later passed to Cardinal Archbishop Pole and then to the crown again, being granted by Elizabeth I to Richard Baker and then Sir Richard Sackville, a cousin of her mother Anne Boleyn. In 1579 the manor became part of the Halnaker estate, which was later acquired by the 3rd Duke of Richmond. When he died in 1806, the Goodwood estate, including Tangmere, totalled 17,000 acres (69 km²). Goodwood maintained ownership of Tangmere land until the 1930s. Tangmere was a detached parish of Aldwick Hundred. All the surrounding parishes were part of Box and Stockgrove Hundred. It only joined with the parishes around it when it became part of the Westhampnett Rural District in 1894. [edit] RAF TangmereFor more information, see the EN Wikipedia article RAF Tangmere. [edit] Research Tips
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