Woodmancote is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.
The Anglican parish church, St Peter's, which stands alone beside the A281 road, dates to the thirteenth century, and was largely rebuilt in 1868.
Two of the Lewes martyrs, burnt at the stake in the Marian Persecutions of 1556, Thomas Harland and John Oswald, came from Woodmancote.
[4] The hamlet of Blackstone (TQ 240 161) has many ancient houses and barns, in a still largely farmed landscape.
The bowl, drum and pillars of the font are Norman and the remainder dates back to the 14th century.
Woodmancote Place (TQ 231 151) sits next to the church and its surrounding outbuildings, are of many periods, right back to Chaucerian times.
It runs through an area called the Moors (TQ 225 155), which is a low plain with some unimproved wet rush pastures.
To the north of the Moors is a pony grazed western fields behind the Swains Farm Shop hold a large and well managed population of the rare Meadow Thistle in Sussex, with a fine display of heath spotted orchid, lousewort, tormentil, ragged robin, marsh pennywort and at least six sedges.
It benefits from the Cutler's brooks and in spring is busy with bumblebees, beetles, nibbling caterpillars and banded demoiselles flying in from the water.
More recently it has become overgrown with Bramble and young saplings and the Rampion Wind Farm cable runs along its eastern edge.