The Sussex Greensand Way from Lewes joined Stane Street here and remains of a Roman way station or mansio have been found.

[3] The Church of England parish church of St Botolph has some of the oldest surviving wall paintings in the country, including an image of Saint George at the Siege of Antioch in AD 1097.

The paintings are in two tiers on each wall and originally had inscriptions describing the scenes above them.

[5] The themes of the paintings are Adam and Eve, the life of Christ, the Last Judgment and Apocalypse, and the Labours of the Months.

[7] The railway line from Pulborough to Midhurst passed over the tunnel, and when the canal closed the railway company broke into the tunnel and filled that part of it under the rails with chalk.